CVEvulnerability
CVE-2024-50198
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2024-11-08
- 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
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 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:
iio: light: veml6030: fix IIO device retrieval from embedded device
The dev pointer that is received as an argument in the
in_illuminance_period_available_show function references the device
embedded in the IIO device, not in the i2c client.
dev_to_iio_dev() must be used to accessthe right data. The current
implementation leads to a segmentation fault on every attempt to read
the attribute because indio_dev gets a NULL assignment.
This bug has been present since the first appearance of the driver,
apparently since the last version (V6) before getting applied. A
constant attribute was used until then, and the last modifications might
have not been tested again.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.228)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.169)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.114)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.58)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.11.5)
• linux linux kernel 6.12
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2cbb41abae65626736b8b52cf3b9339612c5a86a Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/50039aec43a82ad2495f2d0fb0c289c8717b4bb2 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/905166531831beb067fffe2bdfc98031ffe89087 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bcb90518ccd9e10bf6ab29e31994aab93e4a4361 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bf3ab8e1c28f10df0823d4ff312f83c952b06a15 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c7c44e57750c31de43906d97813273fdffcf7d02 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