CVE-2024-50198 - CVE House
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Status published Unknown CVE-2024-50198

iio: light: veml6030: fix IIO device retrieval from embedded device

Vulnerability Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: iio: light: veml6030: fix IIO device retrieval from embedded device The dev pointer that is received as an argument in the in_illuminance_period_available_show function references the device embedded in the IIO device, not in the i2c client. dev_to_iio_dev() must be used to accessthe right data. The current implementation leads to a segmentation fault on every attempt to read the attribute because indio_dev gets a NULL assignment. This bug has been present since the first appearance of the driver, apparently since the last version (V6) before getting applied. A constant attribute was used until then, and the last modifications might have not been tested again.

Impact Analysis

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Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

Linux
Vulnerable Versions:
7b779f573c48e1ad6da1d6ea5f181f3ecd666bf6, 5.5, 0, 5.10.228, 5.15.169, 6.1.114, 6.6.58, 6.11.5, 6.12

Timeline

Official Publish: November 8th, 2024
Last Modified: May 11th, 2026
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

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Weaknesses (CWE)

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MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

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