CVE-2024-50069: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: pinctrl: apple: check devm_kasprintf() returned value devm_kasprintf() can return a NULL pointer on failure but this returned value is not checked. Fix this lack and check the returned value. Found by code review.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 5.16, before 6.1.114 (fixed in 6.1.114); from 6.2, before 6.6.58 (fixed in 6.6.58); from 6.7, before 6.11.5 (fixed in 6.11.5); version 6.12 only

Published 2024-10-29. Last modified 2026-06-17.