CVE-2024-50239: linux NULL Pointer Dereference
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2024-50239 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 9.9% of scored vulnerabilities.
Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 14 · Related 14Timeline
- 09-11-2024PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 11-05-2026Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: phy: qcom: qmp-usb-legacy: fix NULL-deref on runtime suspend Commit 413db06c05e7 ("phy: qcom-qmp-usb: clean up probe initialisation") removed most users of the platform device driver data from the qcom-qmp-usb driver, but mistakenly also removed the initialisation despite the data still being used in the runtime PM callbacks. This bug was later reproduced when the driver was copied to create the qmp-usb-legacy driver. Restore the driver data initialisation at probe to avoid a NULL-pointer dereference on runtime suspend. Apparently no one uses runtime PM, which currently needs to be enabled manually through sysfs, with these drivers.
CVSS metrics
4 scores · 4 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
- NVDNIST5.5MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogsNot in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.
Public exploits
0 foundNo public exploits indexed.
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeAffected systems
Ubuntu103 products
- linux< 6.8.0-58.60
- linux-allwinner-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
- linux-aws< 6.8.0-1027.29
- linux-aws-5.0All versions (No fix recorded)
- linux-aws-5.11All versions (No fix recorded)
Linux2 products
- linux≥ e464a3180a43b6596bd267f9f274e1793bfb8150, < 7e8066811a2c43fbb5f53c2c26d389e4bab9da34 | ≥ e464a3180a43b6596bd267f9f274e1793bfb8150, < b1cffd00daa9cf499b49a0da698eff5032914f6e | ≥ e464a3180a43b6596bd267f9f274e1793bfb8150, < 29240130ab77c80bea1464317ae2a5fd29c16a0c | 6.6
- linux_kernel≥ 6.6, < 6.6.60 | ≥ 6.7, < 6.11.7 | 6.12:rc1 | 6.12:rc2 | 6.12:rc3 | 6.12:rc4 | 6.12:rc5
Debian1 product
- linux< 6.11.7-1
3 vendors · 106 products