CVE-2024-50238 phy: qcom: qmp-usbc: fix NULL-deref on runtime suspend

What is CVE-2024-50238?

CVE-2024-50238 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 9 Nov 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:

phy: qcom: qmp-usbc: fix NULL-deref on runtime suspend

Commit 413db06c05e7 ("phy: qcom-qmp-usb: clean up probe initialisation") removed most users of the platform device driver data from the qcom-qmp-usb driver, but mistakenly also removed the initialisation despite the data still being used in the runtime PM callbacks. This bug was later reproduced when the driver was copied to create the qmp-usbc driver.

Restore the driver data initialisation at probe to avoid a NULL-pointer dereference on runtime suspend.

Apparently no one uses runtime PM, which currently needs to be enabled manually through sysfs, with these drivers.

Weakness: CWE-476

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-50238?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2024-50238?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2024-50238 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-50238 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as BELL-CVE-2024-50238, DEBIAN-CVE-2024-50238, GHSA-9fm4-j993-vwrj, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-50238.