CVE-2024-50009 (GCVE-0-2024-50009)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-10-21 18:54 – Updated: 2026-05-11 20:43
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Title
cpufreq: amd-pstate: add check for cpufreq_cpu_get's return value
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cpufreq: amd-pstate: add check for cpufreq_cpu_get's return value cpufreq_cpu_get may return NULL. To avoid NULL-dereference check it and return in case of error. Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.
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Linux Linux Affected: ec437d71db77a181227bf6d0ac9d4a80e58ecf0f , < cd9f7bf6cad8b2d3876105ce3c9fc63460a046f6 (git)
Affected: ec437d71db77a181227bf6d0ac9d4a80e58ecf0f , < 5f250d44b8191d612355dd97b89b37bbc1b5d2cb (git)
Affected: ec437d71db77a181227bf6d0ac9d4a80e58ecf0f , < 5493f9714e4cdaf0ee7cec15899a231400cb1a9f (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.17
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.17 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.75 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.11.3 , ≤ 6.11.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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