CVE-2024-50290 media: cx24116: prevent overflows on SNR calculus
A negative value returned from SNR register reads causes an integer underflow in the cx24116 driver, potentially leading to system instability or denial of service.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2024-50290?
CVE-2024-50290 is a medium-severity 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: cx24116: prevent overflows on SNR calculus
as reported by Coverity, if reading SNR registers fail, a negative number will be returned, causing an underflow when reading SNR registers.
Prevent that.
Weakness: CWE-191
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-50290?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Linux kernel.
How do I fix CVE-2024-50290?
Apply the vendor's patch.
Is CVE-2024-50290 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-50290 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Linux kernel
Sources
Also known as BELL-CVE-2024-50290, DEBIAN-CVE-2024-50290, GHSA-82hr-8jw5-cf8x, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-50290.