What is CVE-2024-49899?

CVE-2024-49899 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux, classified under Divide By Zero. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2024-10-21.

How severe is CVE-2024-49899?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Is CVE-2024-49899 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Vulnerability in Linux

CVE-2024-49899

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/amd/display: Initialize denominators' default to 1 [WHAT & HOW] Variables used as denominators and maybe not assigned to other values, should not be 0. Change their default to 1 so they are never 0. This fixes 10 DIVIDE_BY_ZERO issues reported by Coverity.

EPSS: 0.003 (17.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Linux — versions 4562236b3bc0a28aeb6ee93b2d8a849a4c4e1c7c, 4.15, 0
Linux Linux_kernel

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-369 — Divide By Zero

Public proof-of-concept exploits

w4zu/Debian_

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-49899?: CVE-2024-49899 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux, classified under Divide By Zero. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2024-10-21.
How severe is CVE-2024-49899?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.
Is CVE-2024-49899 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.