CVEvulnerability
CVE-2024-49860
7.1 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2024-10-21
- Last modified
- 2026-08-04
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 7.3 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-843
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ACPI: sysfs: validate return type of _STR method
Only buffer objects are valid return values of _STR.
If something else is returned description_show() will access invalid
memory.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 3.7 < 5.10.227)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.168)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.113)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.54)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.10.13)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.11 < 6.11.2)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-843 Access of Resource Using Incompatible Type weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0cdfb9178a3bba843c95c2117c82c15f1a64b9ce Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2364b6af90c6b6d8a4783e0d3481ca80af699554 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4b081991c4363e072e1748efed0bbec8a77daba5 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4bb1e7d027413835b086aed35bc3f0713bc0f72b Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5c8d007c14aefc3f2ddf71e4c40713733dc827be Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/92fd5209fc014405f63a7db79802ca4b01dc0c05 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f0921ecd4ddc14646bb5511f49db4d7d3b0829f0 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f51e5a88f2e7224858b261546cf6b3037dfb1323 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f51f711d36e61fbb87c67b524fd200e05172668d Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00001.html lists.debian.org
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00002.html lists.debian.org