5.5

CVE-2024-57988: linux NULL Pointer Dereference

CVSS: 5.5v3.1MediumModified
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2024-57988DEBIAN-CVE-2024-57988
Published 27-02-2025Last modified 11-05-2026
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2024-57988 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 11.5% 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 7 · Related 6
RHSA-2025:20095RHSA-2025:20518SUSE-SU-2025:02254-1SUSE-SU-2025:02307-1SUSE-SU-2025:02333-1USN-7521-1

Timeline

  1. 27-02-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 11-05-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Bluetooth: btbcm: Fix NULL deref in btbcm_get_board_name() devm_kstrdup() can return a NULL pointer on failure,but this returned value in btbcm_get_board_name() is not checked. Add NULL check in btbcm_get_board_name(), to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference error.

CVSS metrics

4 scores · 4 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.22%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

12%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 0.21% on 19-09-2026

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

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

Ubuntu83 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≥ f9183eaad91521ba1c04a19e5606ae61560a735e, < df2f2d9199e61819cca5da0121dfa4d4cb57000f | ≥ f9183eaad91521ba1c04a19e5606ae61560a735e, < 74af8b9d0e79deefd2d43e14b84575839a849169 | ≥ f9183eaad91521ba1c04a19e5606ae61560a735e, < b88655bc6593c6a7fdc1248b212d17e581c4334e | 6.9
  • linux_kernel≥ 6.9, < 6.12.13 | ≥ 6.13, < 6.13.2
Debian1 product
  • linux< 6.12.13-1

3 vendors · 86 products

References

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