5.5

CVE-2024-50153: linux NULL Pointer Dereference

CVSS: 5.5v3.1MediumModified
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2024-50153DEBIAN-CVE-2024-50153
Published 07-11-2024Last modified 15-10-2026
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2024-50153 is a medium (CVSS 5.5) NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in linux. EPSS estimates a 0.26% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 16.3% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
22/100
0100
Low · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
5.5/10
010
Medium · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.26%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 42 · Related 39
DLA-4008-1DLA-4075-1MGASA-2024-0368MGASA-2024-0369OPENSUSE-SU-2024:14500-1OPENSUSE-SU-2025:14705-1

Timeline

  1. 07-11-2024
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 15-10-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: target: core: Fix null-ptr-deref in target_alloc_device() There is a null-ptr-deref issue reported by KASAN: BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in target_alloc_device+0xbc4/0xbe0 [target_core_mod] ... kasan_report+0xb9/0xf0 target_alloc_device+0xbc4/0xbe0 [target_core_mod] core_dev_setup_virtual_lun0+0xef/0x1f0 [target_core_mod] target_core_init_configfs+0x205/0x420 [target_core_mod] do_one_initcall+0xdd/0x4e0 ... entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e In target_alloc_device(), if allocing memory for dev queues fails, then dev will be freed by dev->transport->free_device(), but dev->transport is not initialized at that time, which will lead to a null pointer reference problem. Fixing this bug by freeing dev with hba->backend->ops->free_device().

CVSS metrics

4 scores · 4 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.26%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

16%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 0.26% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
0.26%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Ubuntu122 products
  • linux< 5.15.0-133.144 | < 6.8.0-58.60
  • linux-allwinner-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws< 5.15.0-1078.85 | < 6.8.0-1027.29
  • linux-aws-5.0All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws-5.11All versions (No fix recorded)
Linux2 products
  • linux≥ 008b936bbde3e87a611b3828a0d5d2a4f99026a0, < 8c1e6717f60d31f8af3937c23c4f1498529584e1 | ≥ 1526d9f10c6184031e42afad0adbdde1213e8ad1, < 39e02fa90323243187c91bb3e8f2f5f6a9aacfc7 | ≥ 1526d9f10c6184031e42afad0adbdde1213e8ad1, < 895ab729425ef9bf3b6d2f8d0853abe64896f314 | ≥ 1526d9f10c6184031e42afad0adbdde1213e8ad1, < b80e9bc85bd9af378e7eac83e15dd129557bbdb6 | ≥ 1526d9f10c6184031e42afad0adbdde1213e8ad1, < 14a6a2adb440e4ae97bee73b2360946bd033dadd | ≥ 1526d9f10c6184031e42afad0adbdde1213e8ad1, < fca6caeb4a61d240f031914413fcc69534f6dc03 | ≥ 5.10.180, < 5.10.229 | 5.11
  • linux_kernel≥ 5.11, < 5.15.170 | ≥ 5.16, < 6.1.115 | ≥ 6.2, < 6.6.59 | ≥ 6.7, < 6.11.6 | 5.10.180 | 6.12:rc1 | 6.12:rc2 | 6.12:rc3
Debian1 product
  • linux< 6.1.115-1 | < 6.11.6-1

3 vendors · 125 products

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