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CVE-2024-50056

usb: gadget: uvc: Fix ERR_PTR dereference in uvc_v4l2.c

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Oct 21, 2024
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
Oct 21, 2024

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Description

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

usb: gadget: uvc: Fix ERR_PTR dereference in uvc_v4l2.c

Fix potential dereferencing of ERR_PTR() in find_format_by_pix() and uvc_v4l2_enum_format().

Fix the following smatch errors:

drivers/usb/gadget/function/uvc_v4l2.c:124 find_format_by_pix() error: 'fmtdesc' dereferencing possible ERR_PTR()

drivers/usb/gadget/function/uvc_v4l2.c:392 uvc_v4l2_enum_format() error: 'fmtdesc' dereferencing possible ERR_PTR()

Also, fix similar issue in uvc_v4l2_try_format() for potential dereferencing of ERR_PTR().

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 588b9e85609bcb2f84a2be83591480aa943943b6 to before 03fa71e97e9bb116993ec1d51b8a6fe776db0984Affected
  • 588b9e85609bcb2f84a2be83591480aa943943b6 to before 72a68d2bede3284b95ee93a5ab3a81758bba95b0Affected
  • 588b9e85609bcb2f84a2be83591480aa943943b6 to before cedeb36c3ff4acd0f3d09918dfd8ed1df05efdd6Affected
  • 588b9e85609bcb2f84a2be83591480aa943943b6 to before a7bb96b18864225a694e3887ac2733159489e4b0Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.1Affected
  • before 6.1Not affected
  • 6.1.133 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.86 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.11.4 through 6.11.*Not affected
  • 6.12 and laterNot affected

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