CVE-2024-50160: 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: ALSA: hda/cs8409: Fix possible NULL dereference If snd_hda_gen_add_kctl fails to allocate memory and returns NULL, then NULL pointer dereference will occur in the next line. Since dolphin_fixups function is a hda_fixup function which is not supposed to return any errors, add simple check before dereference, ignore the fail. Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 5.15, before 5.15.170 (fixed in 5.15.170); from 5.16, before 6.1.115 (fixed in 6.1.115); from 6.2, before 6.6.59 (fixed in 6.6.59); from 6.7, before 6.11.6 (fixed in 6.11.6); version 6.12 only

Published 2024-11-07. Last modified 2026-06-17.