Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-50076

Medium

Published: 29 October 2024

Published
29 October 2024
Modified
08 November 2024
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0013 31.3th percentile
Risk Priority 13 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-50076 is a medium-severity Missing Initialization of Resource (CWE-909) vulnerability in Linux Linux Kernel. Its CVSS base score is 6.5 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 31.3th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vt: prevent kernel-infoleak in con_font_get() font.data may not initialize all memory spaces depending on the implementation of vc->vc_sw->con_font_get. This may cause info-leak, so to prevent this, it is safest to…

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modify it to initialize the allocated memory space to 0, and it generally does not affect the overall performance of the system.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

linux
linux kernel
6.12 · 6.3 — 6.6.58 · 6.7 — 6.11.5

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References