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CVE-2024-49860
HIGH · CVSS 7.1
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2024-10-21T13:15:06.723 · Last modified 2026-06-17T08:00:36.120

Summary

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.

Affected products

linux — linux_kernel

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References

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