CVE-2024-49860
HIGH severity · CVSS 7.3 · CWE-843
7.3CVSS HIGH
Summary
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.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorLocal
Attack complexityLow
Privileges requiredLow
User interactionNone
Confidentiality impactHigh
Integrity impactLow
Availability impactHigh
Exploit probability (EPSS)0%
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:H
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Official patch: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0cdfb9178a3bba843c95c2117c82c15f1a64b9ce ↗
Additional information
- NVD record
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0cdfb9178a3bba843c95c2117c82c15f1a64b9cePatch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4b081991c4363e072e1748efed0bbec8a77daba5Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4bb1e7d027413835b086aed35bc3f0713bc0f72bPatch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5c8d007c14aefc3f2ddf71e4c40713733dc827bePatch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f0921ecd4ddc14646bb5511f49db4d7d3b0829f0Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f51e5a88f2e7224858b261546cf6b3037dfb1323Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2364b6af90c6b6d8a4783e0d3481ca80af699554
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/92fd5209fc014405f63a7db79802ca4b01dc0c05