CVSS 3.1
5.5 mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCVE-2024-49962
Medium (5.5) in linux linux kernel. EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
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 ]
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 16% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-476
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- linux:linux_kernel
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1c9b8775062f8d854a80caf186af57fc617d454c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/402b4c6b7500c7cca6972d2456a4a422801035b5
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4588ea78d3904bebb613b0bb025669e75800f546
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4669da66ebc5b09881487f30669b0fcdb462188e
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a5242874488eba2b9062985bf13743c029821330