CVE-2024-50233: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: staging: iio: frequency: ad9832: fix division by zero in ad9832_calc_freqreg() In the ad9832_write_frequency() function, clk_get_rate() might return 0. This can lead to a division by zero when calling ad9832_calc_freqreg(). The check if (fout > (clk_get_rate(st->mclk) / 2)) does not protect against the case when fout is 0. The ad9832_write_frequency() function is called from ad9832_write(), and fout is derived from a text buffer, which can contain any value.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 2.6.39, before 5.4.285 (fixed in 5.4.285); from 5.5, before 5.10.229 (fixed in 5.10.229); from 5.11, before 5.15.171 (fixed in 5.15.171); from 5.16, before 6.1.116 (fixed in 6.1.116); from 6.2, before 6.6.60 (fixed in 6.6.60); from 6.7, before 6.11.7 (fixed in 6.11.7); …

Published 2024-11-09. Last modified 2026-06-17.