5.5

CVE-2024-35790: usb: typec: altmodes/displayport: create sysfs nodes as driver's default device attribute group

Modified
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2024-35790DEBIAN-CVE-2024-35790
Published 17-05-2024Last modified 11-05-2026

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2024-35790 is a medium (CVSS 5.5) NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in linux. EPSS estimates a 0.23% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 13.6% of scored vulnerabilities.

Priority
Routine

Not severe (CVSS 5.5, local access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?
CVSS score
5.5/10
010
Medium · v3.1 (NVD)
EPSS score
0.23%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedNot listed by any tracked catalog.
RansomwareNot flaggedNo ransomware use recorded.
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 27 · Related 21
DLA-4271-1DLA-4327-1DSA-5925-1RHSA-2024:5101RHSA-2024:5102RHSA-2025:10701

Timeline

  1. 17-05-2024
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 11-05-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: usb: typec: altmodes/displayport: create sysfs nodes as driver's default device attribute group The DisplayPort driver's sysfs nodes may be present to the userspace before typec_altmode_set_drvdata() completes in dp_altmode_probe. This means that a sysfs read can trigger a NULL pointer error by deferencing dp->hpd in hpd_show or dp->lock in pin_assignment_show, as dev_get_drvdata() returns NULL in those cases. Remove manual sysfs node creation in favor of adding attribute group as default for devices bound to the driver. The ATTRIBUTE_GROUPS() macro is not used here otherwise the path to the sysfs nodes is no longer compliant with the ABI.

CVSS metrics

3 scores · 3 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.23%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

14%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

No change 0.00 pp

From 0.23% on 04-10-2026

04-10-202603-11-2026

Known exploited

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CISA KEV

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ENISA CNW

Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.

CIRCL

Not in the CIRCL catalog.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Version check

Known conditions: local access, low-privilege account, no user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.

Ubuntu112 products
  • linuxAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 5.15.0-144.157
  • linux-allwinner-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-awsAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 5.15.0-1088.95
  • linux-aws-5.0All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws-5.11All versions (No fix recorded)
Linux2 products
  • linux≥ 0e3bb7d6894d9b6e67d6382bb03a46a1dc989588, < 6b989ea1c479533ab8dbfbeb1704c94b1d3320da | ≥ 0e3bb7d6894d9b6e67d6382bb03a46a1dc989588, < 9794ffd9d0c39ee070fbd733f862bbe89b28ba33 | ≥ 0e3bb7d6894d9b6e67d6382bb03a46a1dc989588, < f1c5ddaef506e3517dce338c08a60663b1521920 | ≥ 0e3bb7d6894d9b6e67d6382bb03a46a1dc989588, < 4a22aeac24d0d5f26ba741408e8b5a4be6dc5dc0 | ≥ 0e3bb7d6894d9b6e67d6382bb03a46a1dc989588, < 0ad011776c057ce881b7fd6d8c79ecd459c087e9 | ≥ 0e3bb7d6894d9b6e67d6382bb03a46a1dc989588, < 165376f6b23e9a779850e750fb2eb06622e5a531 | 4.19
  • linux_kernel≥ 4.19, < 6.6.24 | ≥ 6.7, < 6.7.12 | 6.8:rc1 | 6.8:rc2 | 6.8:rc3 | 6.8:rc4 | 6.8:rc5 | 6.8:rc6
Debian1 product
  • linux< 6.1.140-1 | < 6.7.12-1

3 vendors · 115 products

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