CVE-2024-50289: media: av7110: fix a spectre vulnerability
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2024-50289 is a medium (CVSS 5.5) vulnerability in linux. EPSS estimates a 0.24% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 15% of scored vulnerabilities.
Not severe (CVSS 5.5, local access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources
Source freshness unavailable
How is this decided?Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 23 · Related 25Timeline
- 19-11-2024PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 30-10-2026Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: av7110: fix a spectre vulnerability As warned by smatch: drivers/staging/media/av7110/av7110_ca.c:270 dvb_ca_ioctl() warn: potential spectre issue 'av7110->ci_slot' [w] (local cap) There is a spectre-related vulnerability at the code. Fix it.
CVSS metrics
4 scores · 3 sources · 2 versions- 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
EPSS trend
Probability
0.24%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
15%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
Increase +0.06 pp
From 0.18% on 04-10-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEVNot in the CISA KEV catalog.
ENISA CNWNot in the ENISA CNW catalog.
CIRCLNot in the CIRCL catalog.
Public exploits
0 foundNo public exploits indexed.
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeNo weakness data has been published for this record.
Affected systems
Known conditions: local access, low-privilege account, no user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.
Ubuntu135 products
- linuxAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 6.8.0-58.60
- linux-allwinner-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
- linux-awsAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 6.8.0-1027.29
- linux-aws-5.0All versions (No fix recorded)
- linux-aws-5.11All versions (No fix recorded)
Linux2 products
- linux≥ 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2, < 8567e451158fc75b633c37a5b15bb40a954ec554 | ≥ 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2, < 0e58d7070eef16615e280d9b25d334b08e042b61 | ≥ 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2, < f3927206c478bd249c225414f7a751752a30e7b9 | ≥ 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2, < 458ea1c0be991573ec436aa0afa23baacfae101a | 2.6.12
- linux_kernel≥ 2.6.13, < 6.11.8 | 2.6.12 | 2.6.12:rc2 | 2.6.12:rc3 | 2.6.12:rc4 | 2.6.12:rc5 | 6.12:rc1 | 6.12:rc2 | 6.12:rc3 | 6.12:rc4 | 6.12:rc5 | 6.12:rc6
Debian1 product
- linuxAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 6.11.9-1
3 vendors · 138 products
