CVE-2024-49962

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Published 2025-05-13 · Modified 2025-05-13

CVSS v3

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CVSS v2

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VIR risk

5.5

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ACPICA: check null return of ACPI_ALLOCATE_ZEROED() in acpi_db_convert_to_package() ACPICA commit 4d4547cf13cca820ff7e0f859ba83e1a610b9fd0 ACPI_ALLOCATE_ZEROED() may fail, elements might be NULL and will cause NULL pointer dereference later. [ rjw: Subject and changelog edits ]

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-49962

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-49962.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: redhat — https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:6966

OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
rhel	9	fixed
sles		affected
debian	bookworm	fixed	`6.1.115-1`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`5.10.234-1`
debian	forky	fixed	`6.11.4-1`
debian	sid	fixed	`6.11.4-1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`6.11.4-1`

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.