Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ACPICA: check null return of ACPI_ALLOCATE_ZEROED() in acpi_db_convert_to_package()

ACPICA commit 4d4547cf13cca820ff7e0f859ba83e1a610b9fd0

ACPI_ALLOCATE_ZEROED() may fail, elements might be NULL and will cause
NULL pointer dereference later.

[ rjw: Subject and changelog edits ]

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-49962

CVSS Base Severity: MEDIUM

CVSS Base Score: 5.5

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Products

Vendor: Linux

Product: Linux

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.03% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 6.14% (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-2024-49962
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4669da66ebc5b09881487f30669b0fcdb462188e
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/402b4c6b7500c7cca6972d2456a4a422801035b5
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cbb67e245dacd02b5e1d82733892647df1523982
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1c9b8775062f8d854a80caf186af57fc617d454c
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f282db38953ad71dd4f3f8877a4e1d37e580e30a
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4588ea78d3904bebb613b0bb025669e75800f546
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a907c113a8b66972f15f084d7dff960207b1f71d
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ae5d4c7e76ba393d20366dfea1f39f24560ffb1d
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a5242874488eba2b9062985bf13743c029821330

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