CVE-2024-49860

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.

Affected Platforms

Weakness Type

CWE-843

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0cdfb9178a3bba843c95c2117c82c15f1a64b9ce
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2364b6af90c6b6d8a4783e0d3481ca80af699554
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4b081991c4363e072e1748efed0bbec8a77daba5
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4bb1e7d027413835b086aed35bc3f0713bc0f72b
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5c8d007c14aefc3f2ddf71e4c40713733dc827be
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/92fd5209fc014405f63a7db79802ca4b01dc0c05