What is CVE-2024-26799?

CVE-2024-26799 is a Medium severity Linux kernel vulnerability with a CVSS score of 6.2 out of 10, classified as a Access of Uninitialized Pointer flaw (CWE-824). CVE-2024-26799 has not been confirmed as actively exploited and is not listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

What is the CVSS score for CVE-2024-26799?

CVE-2024-26799 has a CVSS score of 6.2 out of 10, rated Medium severity. The vector string is CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Is there a patch available for CVE-2024-26799?

No patch is currently available for CVE-2024-26799. Monitor the NIST NVD and your Linux distribution's security advisories for updates.

Is CVE-2024-26799 actively exploited?

CVE-2024-26799 has not been confirmed as actively exploited and is not listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

What is Access of Uninitialized Pointer (CWE-824)?

The product accesses or uses a pointer that has not been initialised, leading to undefined behaviour. See MITRE CWE for full details: https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/824.html

CVE-2024-26799

Medium

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ASoC: qcom: Fix uninitialized pointer dmactl In the case where __lpass_get_dmactl_handle is called and the driver id dai_id is invalid the pointer dmactl is not being assigned a value, and dmactl contains a garbage value since it has not been initialized and so the null check may not work. Fix this to initialize dmactl to NULL. One could argue that modern compilers will set this to zero, but it is useful to keep this initialized as per the same way in functions __lpass_platform_codec_intf_init and lpass_cdc_dma_daiops_hw_params. Cleans up clang scan build warning: sound/soc/qcom/lpass-cdc-dma.c:275:7: warning: Branch condition evaluates to a garbage value [core.uninitialized.Branch]

Package Linux Kernel

Published 2024-04-04

Last modified 2025-04-04

CVSS version 3.1

Patch available

Awaiting data

CVSS 3.1 score

6.2

out of 10

Medium

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

Low

Integrity

None

Availability

High

Vector string

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weakness type

CWE-824

CVE-2024-26799 is a Access of Uninitialized Pointer vulnerability

What is Access of Uninitialized Pointer?

The product accesses or uses a pointer that has not been initialised, leading to undefined behaviour. Learn more on MITRE CWE

References

The following references provide additional information about CVE-2024-26799 including vendor advisories, patch commits, exploit details, and third-party analysis. Links are sourced from the NIST NVD database.

Kernel patch commit
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1382d8b55129875b2e07c4d2a7ebc790183769ee
Patch
Kernel patch commit
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/99adc8b4d2f38bf0d06483ec845bc48f60c3f8cf
Patch
Kernel patch commit
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d5a7726e6ea62d447b79ab5baeb537ea6bdb225b
Patch

Details

CVE ID CVE-2024-26799

Severity Medium

CVSS score 6.2 / 10

CVSS version 3.1

Published 2024-04-04

Modified 2025-04-04

KEV No

Patch Awaiting data

Package linux

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-26799?

CVE-2024-26799 is a Medium severity Linux kernel vulnerability with a CVSS score of 6.2 out of 10 , classified as an Access of Uninitialized Pointer flaw (CWE-824) . CVE-2024-26799 has not been confirmed as actively exploited and is not listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
What is the CVSS score for CVE-2024-26799?

CVE-2024-26799 has a CVSS score of 6.2 out of 10, rated Medium severity (CVSS 3.1). The vector string is CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.
Is there a patch available for CVE-2024-26799?

No patch is currently available for CVE-2024-26799. Monitor the NIST NVD and your Linux distribution's security advisories for updates.
Is CVE-2024-26799 actively exploited?

No — CVE-2024-26799 has not been confirmed as actively exploited. It is not listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog.
What is Access of Uninitialized Pointer (CWE-824)?

The product accesses or uses a pointer that has not been initialised, leading to undefined behaviour. View CWE-824 on MITRE CWE →