CVE-2024-49860

Name	CVE-2024-49860
Description	In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ACPI: sysfs: validate return type of _STR method Only buffer objects are valid return values of _STR. If something else is returned description_show() will access invalid memory.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
References	DLA-4008-1, DLA-4075-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
linux (PTS)	bookworm	6.1.176-1	fixed
	bookworm (security)	6.1.187-1	fixed
	trixie (security), trixie	6.12.107-1	fixed
	forky, sid	7.1.13-1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Origin
linux	source	bullseye	5.10.234-1	DLA-4075-1
linux	source	bookworm	6.1.115-1
linux	source	(unstable)	6.11.2-1
linux-6.1	source	bullseye	6.1.119-1~deb11u1	DLA-4008-1

https://git.kernel.org/linus/4bb1e7d027413835b086aed35bc3f0713bc0f72b (6.12-rc1)