What is CVE-2024-50070?

CVE-2024-50070 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux, classified under NULL Pointer Dereference. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2024-10-29.

How severe is CVE-2024-50070?

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

Is CVE-2024-50070 known to be exploited?

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

NULL pointer dereference in Linux

CVE-2024-50070

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: pinctrl: stm32: check devm_kasprintf() returned value devm_kasprintf() can return a NULL pointer on failure but this returned value is not checked. Fix this lack and check the returned value. Found by code review.

EPSS: 0.002 (10.8th 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 75285cb2b49a9bfe15fc22aecab45ef25d50e6f2, 32c170ff15b044579b1f8b8cdabf543406dde9da, 6.6
Linux Linux_kernel — versions 6.12

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-476 — NULL Pointer Dereference

Public proof-of-concept exploits

fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds

References

416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Patch)
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Patch)
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Patch)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-50070?: CVE-2024-50070 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux, classified under NULL Pointer Dereference. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2024-10-29.
How severe is CVE-2024-50070?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.
Is CVE-2024-50070 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.