# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2024-27413"
idYear: 2024
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-05-17T11:50:53.780Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-23T15:42:38.950Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:07.518Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-27413"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-27413.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-27413"
title: "efi/capsule-loader: fix incorrect allocation size"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nefi/capsule-loader: fix incorrect allocation size\n\ngcc-14 notices that the allocation with sizeof(void) on 32-bit architectures\nis not enough for a 64-bit phys_addr_t:\n\ndrivers/firmware/efi/capsule-loader.c: In function 'efi_capsule_open':\ndrivers/firmware/efi/capsule-loader.c:295:24: error: allocation of insufficient size '4' for type 'phys_addr_t' {aka 'long long unsigned int'} with size '8' [-Werror=alloc-size]\n  295 |         cap_info-\u003ephys = kzalloc(sizeof(void *), GFP_KERNEL);\n      |                        ^\n\nUse the correct type instead here."
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