# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2024-56657"
idYear: 2024
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-12-27T15:06:20.854Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T01:00:08.408Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:20.494Z"
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-2024-56657"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-56657.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-56657"
title: "ALSA: control: Avoid WARN() for symlink errors"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nALSA: control: Avoid WARN() for symlink errors\n\nUsing WARN() for showing the error of symlink creations don't give\nmore information than telling that something goes wrong, since the\nusual code path is a lregister callback from each control element\ncreation.  More badly, the use of WARN() rather confuses fuzzer as if\nit were serious issues.\n\nThis patch downgrades the warning messages to use the normal dev_err()\ninstead of WARN().  For making it clearer, add the function name to\nthe prefix, too."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"a135dfb5de1501327895729b4f513370d2555b4d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4e5a92a7223c83c1f5f2db6cd010ac9347948972"},{"version":"a135dfb5de1501327895729b4f513370d2555b4d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"365ee29e559269cbb2108c4cc05dd8e262b4e84e"},{"version":"a135dfb5de1501327895729b4f513370d2555b4d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d5a1ca7b59804d6779644001a878ed925a4688ca"},{"version":"a135dfb5de1501327895729b4f513370d2555b4d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"36c0764474b637bbee498806485bed524cad486b"},{"version":"a135dfb5de1501327895729b4f513370d2555b4d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b2e538a9827dd04ab5273bf4be8eb2edb84357b0"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.13","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.13"},{"version":"5.15.209","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.175","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.67","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.6","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.13","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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