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National Vulnerability Database

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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2024-50056

Change History

New CVE Received by NIST 10/21/2024 4:15:17 PM

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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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						Reference
						
							
							
								
							
								

								
							
							
								
							
						
								
							
								
kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a7bb96b18864225a694e3887ac2733159489e4b0 [No types assigned]

								
								
					

					

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kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cedeb36c3ff4acd0f3d09918dfd8ed1df05efdd6 [No types assigned]