5.5

CVE-2024-56536: wifi: cw1200: Fix potential NULL dereference

Modified
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2024-56536DEBIAN-CVE-2024-56536
Published 27-12-2024Last modified 11-05-2026

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2024-56536 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 18% of scored vulnerabilities.

Priority
Routine

Not severe (CVSS 5.5, local access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?
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 listedNot listed by any tracked catalog.
RansomwareNot flaggedNo ransomware use recorded.
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 9 · Related 11
SUSE-SU-2025:0117-1SUSE-SU-2025:0153-1SUSE-SU-2025:0154-1SUSE-SU-2025:0289-1SUSE-SU-2025:20165-1SUSE-SU-2025:20166-1

Timeline

  1. 27-12-2024
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 11-05-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: cw1200: Fix potential NULL dereference A recent refactoring was identified by static analysis to cause a potential NULL dereference, fix this!

CVSS metrics

4 scores · 4 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.26%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

18%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

No change 0.00 pp

From 0.26% on 04-10-2026

04-10-202603-11-2026

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEV

Not in the CISA KEV catalog.

ENISA CNW

Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.

CIRCL

Not in the CIRCL catalog.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Version check

Known conditions: local access, low-privilege account, no user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.

Ubuntu78 products
  • linux-allwinner-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws-5.0All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws-5.11All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws-5.13All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
Linux2 products
  • linux≥ 2719a9e7156c4b3983b43db467c1ff96801bda99, < 0ec90ac5f7bd9dd573bd5d964cbdc3beaa93a33e | ≥ 2719a9e7156c4b3983b43db467c1ff96801bda99, < 67c914f2d64b28409796a6b9036c131e93f8af6c | ≥ 2719a9e7156c4b3983b43db467c1ff96801bda99, < 2b94751626a6d49bbe42a19cc1503bd391016bd5 | 6.9
  • linux_kernel≥ 6.9, < 6.11.11 | ≥ 6.12, < 6.12.2
Debian1 product
  • linux< 6.12.3-1

3 vendors · 81 products

References

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