CVE-2024-50198: 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: iio: light: veml6030: fix IIO device retrieval from embedded device The dev pointer that is received as an argument in the in_illuminance_period_available_show function references the device embedded in the IIO device, not in the i2c client. dev_to_iio_dev() must be used to accessthe right data. The current implementation leads to a segmentation fault on every attempt to read the attribute because indio_dev gets a NULL assignment. This bug has been present since the first appearance of the driver, apparently since the last version (V6) before getting applied. A constant attribute was used until then, and the last modifications might have not been tested again.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 5.5, before 5.10.228 (fixed in 5.10.228); from 5.11, before 5.15.169 (fixed in 5.15.169); 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 2024-11-08. Last modified 2026-06-17.