CVE-2024-35850: linux NULL Pointer Dereference
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2024-35850 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 13.3% of scored vulnerabilities.
Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 14 · Related 12Timeline
- 17-05-2024PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 11-05-2026Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Bluetooth: qca: fix NULL-deref on non-serdev setup Qualcomm ROME controllers can be registered from the Bluetooth line discipline and in this case the HCI UART serdev pointer is NULL. Add the missing sanity check to prevent a NULL-pointer dereference when setup() is called for a non-serdev controller.
CVSS metrics
3 scores · 3 sources · 1 version- OSV · UbuntuEcosystem advisory · calculated5.5MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- OSV · DebianEcosystem advisory · calculated5.5MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS trend
Probability
0.23%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
13%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
0.00 pp
From 0.23% on 18-09-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogsNot in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.
Public exploits
0 foundNo public exploits indexed.
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeAffected systems
Ubuntu92 products
- linux< 6.8.0-40.40
- linux-allwinner-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
- linux-aws< 6.8.0-1013.14
- linux-aws-5.0All versions (No fix recorded)
- linux-aws-5.11All versions (No fix recorded)
Linux2 products
- linux≥ e9b3e5b8c65733f626a7ee919c4bc895b51d7bb2, < 67459f1a707aae6d590454de07956c2752e21ea4 | ≥ e9b3e5b8c65733f626a7ee919c4bc895b51d7bb2, < bec4d4c6fa5c6526409f582e4f31144e20c86c21 | ≥ e9b3e5b8c65733f626a7ee919c4bc895b51d7bb2, < 7ddb9de6af0f1c71147785b12fd7c8ec3f06cc86 | 6.2
- linux_kernel≥ 6.2, < 6.6.30 | ≥ 6.7, < 6.8.9 | 6.9:rc1 | 6.9:rc2 | 6.9:rc3 | 6.9:rc4 | 6.9:rc5
Debian1 product
- linux< 6.8.9-1
3 vendors · 95 products
