CVE-2024-49962

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-49962
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2024-49962.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2024-49962
Downstream
Related
Published
2024-10-21T18:02:14.418Z
Modified
2026-05-15T11:53:25.979970719Z
Summary
ACPICA: check null return of ACPI_ALLOCATE_ZEROED() in acpi_db_convert_to_package()
Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ACPICA: check null return of ACPIALLOCATEZEROED() in acpidbconverttopackage()

ACPICA commit 4d4547cf13cca820ff7e0f859ba83e1a610b9fd0

ACPIALLOCATEZEROED() may fail, elements might be NULL and will cause NULL pointer dereference later.

[ rjw: Subject and changelog edits ]

Database specific 
{
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/49xxx/CVE-2024-49962.json",
    "cna_assigner": "Linux"
}
References

Affected packages

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
4.4.0
Fixed
4.19.323
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
4.20.0
Fixed
5.4.285
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.5.0
Fixed
5.10.227
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.11.0
Fixed
5.15.168
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.16.0
Fixed
6.1.113
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.2.0
Fixed
6.6.55
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.7.0
Fixed
6.10.14
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.11.0
Fixed
6.11.3

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2024-49962.json"