5.5

CVE-2024-50160: linux NULL Pointer Dereference

CVSS: 5.5v3.1MediumModified
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2024-50160DEBIAN-CVE-2024-50160
Published 07-11-2024Last modified 11-05-2026
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2024-50160 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 11.3% 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
0.22%
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 40 · Related 39
DLA-4008-1MGASA-2024-0368MGASA-2024-0369OPENSUSE-SU-2024:14500-1OPENSUSE-SU-2025:14705-1SUSE-SU-2024:4314-1

Timeline

  1. 07-11-2024
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 11-05-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: hda/cs8409: Fix possible NULL dereference If snd_hda_gen_add_kctl fails to allocate memory and returns NULL, then NULL pointer dereference will occur in the next line. Since dolphin_fixups function is a hda_fixup function which is not supposed to return any errors, add simple check before dereference, ignore the fail. Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.

CVSS metrics

4 scores · 4 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.22%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

11%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 0.22% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
0.22%

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≥ 20e507724113300794f16884e7e7507d9b4dec68, < 4e19aca8db696b6ba4dd8c73657405e15c695f14 | ≥ 20e507724113300794f16884e7e7507d9b4dec68, < 21dc97d5086fdabbe278786bb0a03cbf2e26c793 | ≥ 20e507724113300794f16884e7e7507d9b4dec68, < 8971fd61210d75fd2af225621cd2fcc87eb1847c | ≥ 20e507724113300794f16884e7e7507d9b4dec68, < a5dd71a8b849626f42d08a5e73d382f2016fc7bc | ≥ 20e507724113300794f16884e7e7507d9b4dec68, < c9bd4a82b4ed32c6d1c90500a52063e6e341517f | 5.15
  • linux_kernel≥ 5.15, < 5.15.170 | ≥ 5.16, < 6.1.115 | ≥ 6.2, < 6.6.59 | ≥ 6.7, < 6.11.6 | 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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