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Medium severity5.5CISA KEVNVD Advisory· Published Nov 19, 2024· Updated May 12, 2026

CVE-2024-50302

CVE-2024-50302

Description

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.

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