CVE-2024-49962

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference

Publication date:

21/10/2024

Last modified:

03/11/2025

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ACPICA: check null return of ACPI_ALLOCATE_ZEROED() in acpi_db_convert_to_package() ACPICA commit 4d4547cf13cca820ff7e0f859ba83e1a610b9fd0 ACPI_ALLOCATE_ZEROED() may fail, elements might be NULL and will cause NULL pointer dereference later. [ rjw: Subject and changelog edits ]

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.50 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): Low
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x

5.50

Severity 3.x

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::		5.10.227 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.11 (including)	5.15.168 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.16 (including)	6.1.113 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	6.2 (including)	6.6.55 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	6.7 (including)	6.10.14 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	6.11 (including)	6.11.3 (excluding)

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

CVE-2024-49962

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

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