CVE-2024-57792 power: supply: gpio-charger: Fix set charge current limits
A memory corruption vulnerability in the Linux kernel gpio-charger driver allows attackers to cause denial of service or execute code via out-of-bounds memory access.
- 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-2024-57792?
CVE-2024-57792 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 11 Jan 2025. 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:
power: supply: gpio-charger: Fix set charge current limits
Fix set charge current limits for devices which allow to set the lowest charge current limit to be greater zero. If requested charge current limit is below lowest limit, the index equals current_limit_map_size which leads to accessing memory beyond allocated memory.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-57792?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Linux kernel.
How do I fix CVE-2024-57792?
Apply the vendor's patch.
Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.
Is CVE-2024-57792 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-57792 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Linux kernel
Sources
Also known as BELL-CVE-2024-57792, DEBIAN-CVE-2024-57792, GHSA-2658-h2r6-3vxc, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-57792.