CVE-2024-50302

CVE Published 2024-11-19
Related CWE(s) CWE-908: Use of Uninitialized Resource
Related Vendor(s) linux
Related Product(s) linux_kernel
Exploitation Reported (CISA KEV) 2025-03-04
CVSS 3 Base Score 7.8 (HIGH)
CVSS 3 Attack Complexity LOW
CVSS 3 Attack Vector LOCAL

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

HID: core: zero-initialize the report buffer

Since the report buffer is used by all kinds of drivers in various ways, let's zero-initialize it during allocation to make sure that it can't be ever used to leak kernel memory via specially-crafted report.

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