CVE-2024-50302

HID: core: zero-initialize the report buffer

State: Published
Severity: 5.5 Medium
Published: Nov 19, 2024
Updated: Oct 15, 2026
Reserved: Oct 21, 2024

Description

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.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	5.5 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-908 Use of Uninitialized Resource

Affected Products

Product	Versions
LinuxLinux	27ce405039bfe6d3f4143415c638f56a3df77dca to before e7ea60184e1e88a3c9e437b3265cbb6439aa7e26Affected 27ce405039bfe6d3f4143415c638f56a3df77dca to before 3f9e88f2672c4635960570ee9741778d4135ecf5Affected 27ce405039bfe6d3f4143415c638f56a3df77dca to before d7dc68d82ab3fcfc3f65322465da3d7031d4ab46Affected 27ce405039bfe6d3f4143415c638f56a3df77dca to before 05ade5d4337867929e7ef664e7ac8e0c734f1aafAffected 27ce405039bfe6d3f4143415c638f56a3df77dca to before 1884ab3d22536a5c14b17c78c2ce76d1734e8b0bAffected 27ce405039bfe6d3f4143415c638f56a3df77dca to before 9d9f5c75c0c7f31766ec27d90f7a6ac673193191Affected 27ce405039bfe6d3f4143415c638f56a3df77dca to before 492015e6249fbcd42138b49de3c588d826dd9648Affected 27ce405039bfe6d3f4143415c638f56a3df77dca to before 177f25d1292c7e16e1199b39c85480f7f8815552Affected b2b6cadad699d44a8a5b2a60f3d960e00d6fb3b7Affected fe6c9b48ebc920ff21c10c50ab2729440c734254Affected 3.10.16 to before 3.11Affected 3.11.5 to before 3.12Affected
LinuxLinux	3.12Affected before 3.12Not affected 4.19.324 through 4.19.Not affected 5.4.286 through 5.4.Not affected 5.10.230 through 5.10.Not affected 5.15.172 through 5.15.Not affected 6.1.117 through 6.1.Not affected 6.6.61 through 6.6.Not affected 6.11.8 through 6.11.*Not affected 6.12 and laterNot affected

Product

Versions

LinuxLinux

27ce405039bfe6d3f4143415c638f56a3df77dca to before e7ea60184e1e88a3c9e437b3265cbb6439aa7e26Affected
27ce405039bfe6d3f4143415c638f56a3df77dca to before 3f9e88f2672c4635960570ee9741778d4135ecf5Affected
27ce405039bfe6d3f4143415c638f56a3df77dca to before d7dc68d82ab3fcfc3f65322465da3d7031d4ab46Affected
27ce405039bfe6d3f4143415c638f56a3df77dca to before 05ade5d4337867929e7ef664e7ac8e0c734f1aafAffected
27ce405039bfe6d3f4143415c638f56a3df77dca to before 1884ab3d22536a5c14b17c78c2ce76d1734e8b0bAffected
27ce405039bfe6d3f4143415c638f56a3df77dca to before 9d9f5c75c0c7f31766ec27d90f7a6ac673193191Affected
27ce405039bfe6d3f4143415c638f56a3df77dca to before 492015e6249fbcd42138b49de3c588d826dd9648Affected
27ce405039bfe6d3f4143415c638f56a3df77dca to before 177f25d1292c7e16e1199b39c85480f7f8815552Affected
b2b6cadad699d44a8a5b2a60f3d960e00d6fb3b7Affected
fe6c9b48ebc920ff21c10c50ab2729440c734254Affected
3.10.16 to before 3.11Affected
3.11.5 to before 3.12Affected

LinuxLinux

3.12Affected
before 3.12Not affected
4.19.324 through 4.19.*Not affected
5.4.286 through 5.4.*Not affected
5.10.230 through 5.10.*Not affected
5.15.172 through 5.15.*Not affected
6.1.117 through 6.1.*Not affected
6.6.61 through 6.6.*Not affected
6.11.8 through 6.11.*Not affected
6.12 and laterNot affected

References

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