CVE-2024-50198 (GCVE-0-2024-50198)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-11-08 05:54 – Updated: 2025-11-03 22:26
VLAI?
Title
iio: light: veml6030: fix IIO device retrieval from embedded device
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: iio: light: veml6030: fix IIO device retrieval from embedded device The dev pointer that is received as an argument in the in_illuminance_period_available_show function references the device embedded in the IIO device, not in the i2c client. dev_to_iio_dev() must be used to accessthe right data. The current implementation leads to a segmentation fault on every attempt to read the attribute because indio_dev gets a NULL assignment. This bug has been present since the first appearance of the driver, apparently since the last version (V6) before getting applied. A constant attribute was used until then, and the last modifications might have not been tested again.
Severity ?
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-476 - NULL Pointer Dereference
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Linux Linux Affected: 7b779f573c48e1ad6da1d6ea5f181f3ecd666bf6 , < bf3ab8e1c28f10df0823d4ff312f83c952b06a15 (git)
Affected: 7b779f573c48e1ad6da1d6ea5f181f3ecd666bf6 , < 50039aec43a82ad2495f2d0fb0c289c8717b4bb2 (git)
Affected: 7b779f573c48e1ad6da1d6ea5f181f3ecd666bf6 , < bcb90518ccd9e10bf6ab29e31994aab93e4a4361 (git)
Affected: 7b779f573c48e1ad6da1d6ea5f181f3ecd666bf6 , < 2cbb41abae65626736b8b52cf3b9339612c5a86a (git)
Affected: 7b779f573c48e1ad6da1d6ea5f181f3ecd666bf6 , < 905166531831beb067fffe2bdfc98031ffe89087 (git)
Affected: 7b779f573c48e1ad6da1d6ea5f181f3ecd666bf6 , < c7c44e57750c31de43906d97813273fdffcf7d02 (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 5.5
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.5 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.228 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.169 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.114 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.58 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.11.5 , ≤ 6.11.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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