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🛡️ CVE-2024-50302 — android

🟡 CVSS 5.5 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit NVD
5.5
CVSS Score
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Description

HID: core: zero-initialize the report buffer

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.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity none, availability none.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

  • Attack vector: Local — a local account, shell or session on the host is needed.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Privileges required: Low — an ordinary user account is enough.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
  • Confidentiality impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Integrity impact: None.
  • Availability impact: None.

Affected software

CVE-2024-50302 is recorded against 7 packages.

  • :linux-kernel: (from :0 up to :2025-03-05)
  • android
  • debian-linux
  • kernel (from 6.7.0 up to 6.11.8)
  • linux-kernel
  • simatic-s7-1500-tm-mfp-firmware
  • sinec-os (fixed in 3.2)

Timeline and source

Published on 1 March 2025 and last revised on 20 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

source.android.com (Advisory)
android.googlesource.com (Fix)
android.googlesource.com (Fix)

Other advisories for this package

:linux-kernel: has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

CVE-2024-50302 on other distributions

Each distribution ships its own build and its own fixed version. Pick the one you run:

Details

Severity Medium
CVSS Score 5.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2025-03-01
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-08-20

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
:linux-kernel: :0 :2025-03-05
android — —
debian-linux — —
kernel 6.7.0 6.11.8
linux-kernel — —
simatic-s7-1500-tm-mfp-firmware — —
sinec-os — 3.2

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