CVE-2024-50287 media: v4l2-tpg: prevent the risk of a division by zero

What is CVE-2024-50287?

CVE-2024-50287 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 19 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:

media: v4l2-tpg: prevent the risk of a division by zero

As reported by Coverity, the logic at tpg_precalculate_line() blindly rescales the buffer even when scaled_witdh is equal to zero. If this ever happens, this will cause a division by zero.

Instead, add a WARN_ON_ONCE() to trigger such cases and return without doing any precalculation.

Weakness: CWE-369

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-50287?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2024-50287?

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-2024-50287 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-50287 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 AZL-53489, AZL-53766, BELL-CVE-2024-50287, DEBIAN-CVE-2024-50287, GHSA-f8fj-469m-8mrj, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-50287.