CVE-2024-50302
5.5, medium Known exploitedLinux Kernel Use of Uninitialized Resource Vulnerability
- CVSS
- 5.5, medium medium CVSS v3.1
- EPSS, next 30 days
- 0.8% higher than 56.1% of scored CVEs
- Exploitation
- Confirmed in the wild
- Published
- 19 Nov 2024a year ago
Known exploited
CISA added this to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog on 4 Mar 2025. US federal agencies had to remediate by 25 Mar 2025, a deadline that has passed.
Required action. Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.
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.
Details
- Vendor
- Linux and 1 more
- Product
- Linux
- Weakness
- CWE-908 (opens in a new tab)
- Status
- Analyzed
- Updated
- 15 Oct 2026
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
References 13
Patches and fixes 8
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/05ade5d4337867929e7ef664e7ac8e0c734f1aaf (opens in a new tab)
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/177f25d1292c7e16e1199b39c85480f7f8815552 (opens in a new tab)
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/1884ab3d22536a5c14b17c78c2ce76d1734e8b0b (opens in a new tab)
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/3f9e88f2672c4635960570ee9741778d4135ecf5 (opens in a new tab)
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/492015e6249fbcd42138b49de3c588d826dd9648 (opens in a new tab)
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/9d9f5c75c0c7f31766ec27d90f7a6ac673193191 (opens in a new tab)
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/d7dc68d82ab3fcfc3f65322465da3d7031d4ab46 (opens in a new tab)
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/e7ea60184e1e88a3c9e437b3265cbb6439aa7e26 (opens in a new tab)
Advisories 2
The kind is read from NVD's tags where present and from the shape of the URL otherwise, so treat it as a hint.
Other Linux CVEs
Every Linux CVE we holdSame vendor in what we hold, not a known link between the flaws.
- CVE-2026-53362 Linux Kernel Unspecified Vulnerability KEV EPSS 0.7% 7.8, high
- CVE-2026-53266 Linux Kernel Out-of-Bounds Write Vulnerability KEV EPSS 0.8% 8.8, high
- CVE-2026-31431 Linux Kernel Incorrect Resource Transfer Between Spheres Vulnerability KEV EPSS 3% 7.8, high
- CVE-2025-39964 Linux Kernel Race Condition Vulnerability KEV EPSS 1% 5.5, medium
- CVE-2025-39682 Linux Kernel Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions Vulnerability KEV EPSS 3% 9.8, critical
- CVE-2025-38352 Linux Kernel Time-of-Check Time-of-Use (TOCTOU) Race Condition Vulnerability KEV EPSS 1% 7.8, high
- CVE-2024-53197 Linux Kernel Out-of-Bounds Access Vulnerability KEV EPSS 4% 7.8, high
- CVE-2024-53150 Linux Kernel Out-of-Bounds Read Vulnerability KEV EPSS 1% 7.1, high
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Assembled from the NVD 2.0 API, the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog and FIRST EPSS. Scores are as of our last collection on 17 Oct 2026, not the live upstream state.