Bug 2320200 (CVE-2024-49860) - CVE-2024-49860 kernel: ACPI: sysfs: validate return type of _STR method
Summary: CVE-2024-49860 kernel: ACPI: sysfs: validate return type of _STR method
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2024-49860
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Product Security DevOps Team
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Depends On: 2320321
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2024-10-21 13:01 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-05-13 08:29 UTC (History)
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2025:6966 0 None None None 2025-05-13 08:29:05 UTC

Description OSIDB Bzimport 2024-10-21 13:01:45 UTC 
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ACPI: sysfs: validate return type of _STR method

Only buffer objects are valid return values of _STR.

If something else is returned description_show() will access invalid
memory.
Comment 1 Robb Gatica 2024-10-21 14:19:02 UTC 
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2024102124-CVE-2024-49860-2a48@gregkh/T
Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2025-05-13 08:29:04 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Via RHSA-2025:6966 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:6966
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