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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Oct 21, 2024· Updated Nov 3, 2025

ACPI: sysfs: validate return type of _STR method

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.

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