CVEvulnerability
CVE-2024-50056
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2024-10-21
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
usb: gadget: uvc: Fix ERR_PTR dereference in uvc_v4l2.c
Fix potential dereferencing of ERR_PTR() in find_format_by_pix()
and uvc_v4l2_enum_format().
Fix the following smatch errors:
drivers/usb/gadget/function/uvc_v4l2.c:124 find_format_by_pix()
error: 'fmtdesc' dereferencing possible ERR_PTR()
drivers/usb/gadget/function/uvc_v4l2.c:392 uvc_v4l2_enum_format()
error: 'fmtdesc' dereferencing possible ERR_PTR()
Also, fix similar issue in uvc_v4l2_try_format() for potential
dereferencing of ERR_PTR().
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.11 < 6.11.4)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/03fa71e97e9bb116993ec1d51b8a6fe776db0984 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/72a68d2bede3284b95ee93a5ab3a81758bba95b0 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a7bb96b18864225a694e3887ac2733159489e4b0 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cedeb36c3ff4acd0f3d09918dfd8ed1df05efdd6 Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00045.html lists.debian.org