CVE-2024-49860CWE-843

CVE-2024-49860

High · published October 21, 2024

CVSS v3.1
7.3
EPSS
0%
Percentile
16.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.3 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00254 · 16.0th percentile
Weakness
CWE-843 · Access of Resource Using Incompatible Type ('Type Confusion')
Published
2024-10-21T17:15Z
Affected products (6)
ProductVersionsFixed in
linux/linux_kernel≥ 3.7, < 5.10.2275.10.227
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.11, < 5.15.1685.15.168
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.16, < 6.1.1136.1.113
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.2, < 6.6.546.6.54
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.7, < 6.10.136.10.13
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.11, < 6.11.26.11.2
References (11)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 21 OCT 12:27Z
    ACPI: sysfs: validate return type of _STR method
    cvelistv5