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CVE-2024-50290: media: cx24116: prevent overflows on SNR calculus

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-11-19 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-191

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: cx24116: prevent overflows on SNR calculus as reported by Coverity, if reading SNR registers fail, a negative number will be returned, causing an underflow when reading SNR registers. Prevent that.

Affected products

• Linux kernel: from 2.6.28 before 4.19.324; from 4.20 before 5.4.286; from 5.5 before 5.10.230; from 5.11 before 5.15.172; from 5.16 before 6.1.117; from 6.2 before 6.6.61 — fixed in 4.19.324, 5.10.230, 5.15.172, 5.4.286, 6.1.117, 6.11.8

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Linux kernel 4.19.324, 5.10.230, 5.15.172, 5.4.286. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/127b9076baeadd734b18ddc8f2cd93b47d5a3ea3
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3a1ed994d9454132354b860321414955da289929
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/576a307a7650bd544fbb24df801b9b7863b85e2f
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/828047c70f4716fde4b1316f7b610e97a4e83824
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/83c152b55d88cbf6fc4685941fcb31333986774d
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cad97ca8cfd43a78a19b59949f33e3563d369247
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f2b4f277c41db8d548f38f1dd091bbdf6a5acb07
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fbefe31e4598cdb0889eee2e74c995b2212efb08
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00001.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00002.html

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