Bug 2315217 (CVE-2024-46865)

Summary: CVE-2024-46865 kernel: fou: fix initialization of grc
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2024-09-27 13:23:30 UTC 
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

fou: fix initialization of grc

The grc must be initialize first. There can be a condition where if
fou is NULL, goto out will be executed and grc would be used
uninitialized.
Comment 1 Robb Gatica 2024-09-27 14:24:45 UTC 
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2024092745-CVE-2024-46865-c6a7@gregkh/T