5.5

CVE-2024-43818: ASoC: amd: Adjust error handling in case of absent codec device

Modified
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2024-43818DEBIAN-CVE-2024-43818
Published 17-08-2024Last modified 11-05-2026

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2024-43818 is a medium (CVSS 5.5) NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in linux. EPSS estimates a 0.22% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 13.2% 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
0.22%
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 16 · Related 13

Timeline

  1. 17-08-2024
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 11-05-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ASoC: amd: Adjust error handling in case of absent codec device acpi_get_first_physical_node() can return NULL in several cases (no such device, ACPI table error, reference count drop to 0, etc). Existing check just emit error message, but doesn't perform return. Then this NULL pointer is passed to devm_acpi_dev_add_driver_gpios() where it is dereferenced. Adjust this error handling by adding error code return. Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.

CVSS metrics

3 scores · 3 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.22%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

13%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

No change 0.00 pp

From 0.22% on 04-10-2026

04-10-202603-11-2026

Known exploited

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CISA KEV

Not in the CISA KEV catalog.

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.

Ubuntu93 products
  • linux< 6.8.0-50.51
  • linux-allwinner-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws< 6.8.0-1020.22
  • linux-aws-5.0All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws-5.11All versions (No fix recorded)
Linux2 products
  • linux≥ 02527c3f2300100a25524c8c020d98c7957e485e, < 1ba9856cf7f6492b47c1edf853137f320d583db5 | ≥ 02527c3f2300100a25524c8c020d98c7957e485e, < 99b642dac24f6d09ba3ebf1d690be8aefff86164 | ≥ 02527c3f2300100a25524c8c020d98c7957e485e, < b1173d64edd276c957b6d09e1f971c85b38f1519 | ≥ 02527c3f2300100a25524c8c020d98c7957e485e, < 5080808c3339de2220c602ab7c7fa23dc6c1a5a3 | 6.0
  • linux_kernel≥ 6.0, < 6.1.103 | ≥ 6.2, < 6.6.44 | ≥ 6.7, < 6.10.3
Debian1 product
  • linux< 6.1.106-1 | < 6.10.3-1

3 vendors · 96 products

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