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CVE-2024-49860

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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.

References

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00002.html

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00001.html

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f51f711d36e61fbb87c67b524fd200e05172668d

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f51e5a88f2e7224858b261546cf6b3037dfb1323

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f0921ecd4ddc14646bb5511f49db4d7d3b0829f0

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/92fd5209fc014405f63a7db79802ca4b01dc0c05

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5c8d007c14aefc3f2ddf71e4c40713733dc827be

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4bb1e7d027413835b086aed35bc3f0713bc0f72b

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4b081991c4363e072e1748efed0bbec8a77daba5

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2364b6af90c6b6d8a4783e0d3481ca80af699554

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0cdfb9178a3bba843c95c2117c82c15f1a64b9ce

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2024-10-21

Updated: 2025-11-03

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.1

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00042

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