Description

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.

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-49860

Affected Products

Vendor: Linux

Product: Linux

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.04% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 9.11% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-06-02 (when was this score calculated)

Stakeholder-Specific Vulnerability Categorization (SSVC)

SSVC Exploitation: none

SSVC Technical Impact: partial

SSVC Automatable: false

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-49860
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/92fd5209fc014405f63a7db79802ca4b01dc0c05
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2364b6af90c6b6d8a4783e0d3481ca80af699554
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4b081991c4363e072e1748efed0bbec8a77daba5
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0cdfb9178a3bba843c95c2117c82c15f1a64b9ce
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5c8d007c14aefc3f2ddf71e4c40713733dc827be
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f0921ecd4ddc14646bb5511f49db4d7d3b0829f0
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f51e5a88f2e7224858b261546cf6b3037dfb1323
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f51f711d36e61fbb87c67b524fd200e05172668d
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4bb1e7d027413835b086aed35bc3f0713bc0f72b

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