CVE-2024-50290: 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: media: cx24116: prevent overflows on SNR calculus as reported by Coverity, if reading SNR registers fail, a negative number will be returned, causing an underflow when reading SNR registers. Prevent that.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 2.6.28, before 4.19.324 (fixed in 4.19.324); from 4.20, before 5.4.286 (fixed in 5.4.286); from 5.5, before 5.10.230 (fixed in 5.10.230); from 5.11, before 5.15.172 (fixed in 5.15.172); from 5.16, before 6.1.117 (fixed in 6.1.117); from 6.2, before 6.6.61 (fixed in 6.6.61); …

Published 2024-11-19. Last modified 2026-06-17.