CVE-2024-50056

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-50056
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2024-50056.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2024-50056
Downstream
Related
Published
2024-10-21T19:39:47.131Z
Modified
2026-03-20T12:39:33.256882Z
Summary
usb: gadget: uvc: Fix ERR_PTR dereference in uvc_v4l2.c
Details

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

usb: gadget: uvc: Fix ERRPTR dereference in uvcv4l2.c

Fix potential dereferencing of ERRPTR() in findformatbypix() and uvcv4l2enum_format().

Fix the following smatch errors:

drivers/usb/gadget/function/uvcv4l2.c:124 findformatbypix() error: 'fmtdesc' dereferencing possible ERR_PTR()

drivers/usb/gadget/function/uvcv4l2.c:392 uvcv4l2enumformat() error: 'fmtdesc' dereferencing possible ERR_PTR()

Also, fix similar issue in uvcv4l2tryformat() for potential dereferencing of ERRPTR().

Database specific 
{
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/50xxx/CVE-2024-50056.json",
    "cna_assigner": "Linux"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
588b9e85609bcb2f84a2be83591480aa943943b6
Fixed
03fa71e97e9bb116993ec1d51b8a6fe776db0984
Fixed
72a68d2bede3284b95ee93a5ab3a81758bba95b0
Fixed
cedeb36c3ff4acd0f3d09918dfd8ed1df05efdd6
Fixed
a7bb96b18864225a694e3887ac2733159489e4b0

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2024-50056.json"