HighFix available
ACPI: sysfs: validate return type of _STR method
Type: advisorySources: OSV
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ACPI: sysfs: validate return type of _STR method Only buffer objects are valid return values of _STR. If something else is returned description_show() will access invalid memory.
- Products
- Kernel
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 4.19.323, 5.10.227, 5.15.168, 5.4.285, 6.1.113, 6.10.13, 6.11.2, 6.6.54
- CVEs
- CVE-2024-49860
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 5 Nov 2026, 03:12 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
ACPI: sysfs: validate return type of _STR method
core-osv · Original sourcePublished 21 Oct 2024, 12:27 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ACPI: sysfs: validate return type of _STR method Only buffer objects are valid return values of _STR. If something else is returned description_show() will access invalid memory.
osv:CVE-2024-49860
Kernel
Fixed versions: 4.19.323, 5.4.285, 5.10.227, 5.15.168, 6.1.113, 6.6.54, 6.10.13, 6.11.2
Complete source record
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