CVE-2024-50198
MEDIUMLinux Kernel 5.5-5.9, 5.11-5.14, 5.16-6.0, 6.2-6.5, 6.7-6.10 - NULL Pointer Dereference in IIO Light Sensor Driver
Title source: llmDescription
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: iio: light: veml6030: fix IIO device retrieval from embedded device The dev pointer that is received as an argument in the in_illuminance_period_available_show function references the device embedded in the IIO device, not in the i2c client. dev_to_iio_dev() must be used to accessthe right data. The current implementation leads to a segmentation fault on every attempt to read the attribute because indio_dev gets a NULL assignment. This bug has been present since the first appearance of the driver, apparently since the last version (V6) before getting applied. A constant attribute was used until then, and the last modifications might have not been tested again.
References (8)
Core 8
Core References
Scores
CVSS v3
5.5
EPSS
0.0021
EPSS Percentile
10.7%
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 (21)
linux/Kernel
5.11.0 - 5.15.169linux
linux/Kernel
5.16.0 - 6.1.114linux
linux/Kernel
5.5.0 - 5.10.228linux
linux/Kernel
6.2.0 - 6.6.58linux
linux/Kernel
6.7.0 - 6.11.5linux
Linux/Linux
< 5.5
Linux/Linux
5.10.228 - 5.10.*
Linux/Linux
5.15.169 - 5.15.*
Linux/Linux
5.5
Linux/Linux
6.1.114 - 6.1.*
... and 11 more
Published
Nov 08, 2024
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026