CVE-2024-50160
MEDIUMLinux Kernel 5.15-5.15.169 5.16-6.1.114 6.2-6.6.58 6.7-6.11.5 - NULL Pointer Dereference in ALSA CS8409 Fixup
Title source: llmDescription
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: hda/cs8409: Fix possible NULL dereference If snd_hda_gen_add_kctl fails to allocate memory and returns NULL, then NULL pointer dereference will occur in the next line. Since dolphin_fixups function is a hda_fixup function which is not supposed to return any errors, add simple check before dereference, ignore the fail. Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.
References (6)
Core 6
Core References
Scores
CVSS v3
5.5
EPSS
0.0022
EPSS Percentile
11.8%
Attack Vector
LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical Impact
partial
Details
CWE
CWE-476
Status
published
Products (18)
linux/Kernel
5.15.0 - 5.15.170linux
linux/Kernel
5.16.0 - 6.1.115linux
linux/Kernel
6.2.0 - 6.6.59linux
linux/Kernel
6.7.0 - 6.11.6linux
Linux/Linux
< 5.15
Linux/Linux
20e507724113300794f16884e7e7507d9b4dec68 - 21dc97d5086fdabbe278786bb0a03cbf2e26c793
Linux/Linux
20e507724113300794f16884e7e7507d9b4dec68 - 4e19aca8db696b6ba4dd8c73657405e15c695f14
Linux/Linux
20e507724113300794f16884e7e7507d9b4dec68 - 8971fd61210d75fd2af225621cd2fcc87eb1847c
Linux/Linux
20e507724113300794f16884e7e7507d9b4dec68 - a5dd71a8b849626f42d08a5e73d382f2016fc7bc
Linux/Linux
20e507724113300794f16884e7e7507d9b4dec68 - c9bd4a82b4ed32c6d1c90500a52063e6e341517f
... and 8 more
Published
Nov 07, 2024
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026