CVE-2024-50009 (GCVE-0-2024-50009)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-10-21 18:54 – Updated: 2026-05-11 20:43
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-10-22 13:28 UTC
Assigner
References
Impacted products
2 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
ec437d71db77a181227bf6d0ac9d4a80e58ecf0f , < cd9f7bf6cad8b2d3876105ce3c9fc63460a046f6
(git)
Affected: ec437d71db77a181227bf6d0ac9d4a80e58ecf0f , < 5f250d44b8191d612355dd97b89b37bbc1b5d2cb (git) Affected: ec437d71db77a181227bf6d0ac9d4a80e58ecf0f , < 5493f9714e4cdaf0ee7cec15899a231400cb1a9f (git) |
guessed | |
| 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) |
guessed |
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"dateReserved": "2024-10-21T12:17:06.061Z",
"dateUpdated": "2025-05-04T09:43:42.257Z",
"state": "PUBLISHED"
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Experimental. This forecast is provided for visualization only and may change without notice. Do not use it for operational decisions.
Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.
Sightings
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Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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