Published Oct 21, 2024Sources checked Oct 24, 2026
7.1HIGHCVSS out of 10
What this means
Review the available evidence
CVE-2024-49860 and is rated High severity with a CVSS score of 7.1. It is not in the current CISA KEV record we collected. That does not prove exploitation has not occurred.
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Vendor revision: Aug 12, 2026
CBL-Mariner Releases
Vendor-listed releases
5.15.173.1-1
6.6.56.1-5
CISA KEVNot listedBased on the latest collected catalog
EPSS0.3%Estimated 30-day exploitation probability
Ransomware useNot markedCISA KEV ransomware field
Threat actors0Source-linked actor relationships
Overview
What is CVE-2024-49860?
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.