CVE-2024-49860: Linux Kernel

High severity, CVSS 7.1. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 3.7, before 5.10.227 (fixed in 5.10.227); from 5.11, before 5.15.168 (fixed in 5.15.168); from 5.16, before 6.1.113 (fixed in 6.1.113); from 6.2, before 6.6.54 (fixed in 6.6.54); from 6.7, before 6.10.13 (fixed in 6.10.13); from 6.11, before 6.11.2 (fixed in 6.11.2)

Published 2024-10-21. Last modified 2026-08-04.