CVE-2024-50198 — NULL Pointer Dereference in Linux
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
OSV8.8OSV7.8
EPSS
0.0%
top 98.03%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedNov 8
Latest updateMay 26
Description
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 assign…
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 3.6