5.5

CVE-2024-50198: linux NULL Pointer Dereference

CVSS: 5.5v3.1MediumModified
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2024-50198DEBIAN-CVE-2024-50198
Published 08-11-2024Last modified 11-05-2026
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2024-50198 is a medium (CVSS 5.5) NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in linux. EPSS estimates a 0.21% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 10.1% 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
0.21%
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 41 · Related 41
DLA-4008-1DLA-4075-1OPENSUSE-SU-2024:14500-1OPENSUSE-SU-2025:14705-1SUSE-SU-2024:4314-1SUSE-SU-2024:4315-1

Timeline

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

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: iio: light: veml6030: fix IIO device retrieval from embedded device The dev pointer that is received as an argument in the in_illuminance_period_available_show function references the device embedded in the IIO device, not in the i2c client. dev_to_iio_dev() must be used to accessthe right data. The current implementation leads to a segmentation fault on every attempt to read the attribute because indio_dev gets a NULL assignment. This bug has been present since the first appearance of the driver, apparently since the last version (V6) before getting applied. A constant attribute was used until then, and the last modifications might have not been tested again.

CVSS metrics

4 scores · 4 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.21%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

10%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 0.21% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
0.21%

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 | < 6.8.0-56.58
  • linux-allwinner-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws< 5.15.0-1078.85 | < 6.8.0-1025.27
  • linux-aws-5.0All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws-5.11All versions (No fix recorded)
Linux2 products
  • linux≥ 7b779f573c48e1ad6da1d6ea5f181f3ecd666bf6, < bf3ab8e1c28f10df0823d4ff312f83c952b06a15 | ≥ 7b779f573c48e1ad6da1d6ea5f181f3ecd666bf6, < 50039aec43a82ad2495f2d0fb0c289c8717b4bb2 | ≥ 7b779f573c48e1ad6da1d6ea5f181f3ecd666bf6, < bcb90518ccd9e10bf6ab29e31994aab93e4a4361 | ≥ 7b779f573c48e1ad6da1d6ea5f181f3ecd666bf6, < 2cbb41abae65626736b8b52cf3b9339612c5a86a | ≥ 7b779f573c48e1ad6da1d6ea5f181f3ecd666bf6, < 905166531831beb067fffe2bdfc98031ffe89087 | ≥ 7b779f573c48e1ad6da1d6ea5f181f3ecd666bf6, < c7c44e57750c31de43906d97813273fdffcf7d02 | 5.5
  • linux_kernel≥ 5.5, < 5.10.228 | ≥ 5.11, < 5.15.169 | ≥ 5.16, < 6.1.114 | ≥ 6.2, < 6.6.58 | ≥ 6.7, < 6.11.5 | 6.12:rc1 | 6.12:rc2 | 6.12:rc3
Debian1 product
  • linux< 6.1.115-1 | < 6.11.5-1

3 vendors · 125 products

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