CVE-2024-50011 ASoC: Intel: soc-acpi-intel-rpl-match: add missing empty item

What is CVE-2024-50011?

CVE-2024-50011 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 21 Oct 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

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

ASoC: Intel: soc-acpi-intel-rpl-match: add missing empty item

There is no links_num in struct snd_soc_acpi_mach {}, and we test !link->num_adr as a condition to end the loop in hda_sdw_machine_select(). So an empty item in struct snd_soc_acpi_link_adr array is required.

Weakness: CWE-835

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-50011?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2024-50011?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2024-50011 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-50011 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as BELL-CVE-2024-50011, DEBIAN-CVE-2024-50011, GHSA-qr43-43pm-fwh2, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-50011.