CVE-2024-49860 Information

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.

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

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

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction Required

LOW

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

7.1