CVE-2024-50028: thermal: core: Reference count the zone in thermal_zone_get_by_id()

Q: What is the severity of CVE-2024-50028?

CVE-2024-50028 has a moderate severity rating due to potential impact on system stability.

Q: How do I fix CVE-2024-50028?

To fix CVE-2024-50028, update your Linux kernel to version 6.12-rc2 or later.

Q: What versions of the Linux kernel are affected by CVE-2024-50028?

CVE-2024-50028 affects Linux kernel versions from 5.9 to 6.11.4 and includes 6.12-rc1 and 6.12-rc2.

Q: Can CVE-2024-50028 lead to system crashes?

Yes, CVE-2024-50028 can potentially lead to system crashes due to improper handling of thermal zone objects.

Q: Is CVE-2024-50028 a local or remote vulnerability?

CVE-2024-50028 is classified as a local vulnerability as it requires local system access to exploit.

Published Oct 21, 2024

Updated

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

thermal: core: Reference count the zone in thermalzonegetbyid()

There are places in the thermal netlink code where nothing prevents the thermal zone object from going away while being accessed after it has been returned by thermalzonegetbyid().

To address this, make thermalzonegetbyid() get a reference on the thermal zone device object to be returned with the help of getdevice(), under thermallistlock, and adjust all of its callers to this change with the help of the cleanup.h infrastructure.

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Affected Software

158 affected componentsFixes available

Linux Linux kernel>=5.9<6.11.4

Linux Linux kernel=6.12-rc1

Linux Linux kernel=6.12-rc2

debian/linux*

debian/linux<6.11.4-1

6.11.4-1

debian/linux<6.11.4-1

6.11.4-1

debian/linux<=6.1.176-1, <=6.1.190-1

6.12.107-16.12.115-27.2.12-17.2.15-1

ubuntu/linux-hwe-edge*

ubuntu/linux-aws-5.0*

ubuntu/linux-aws-5.3*

ubuntu/linux-azure*

ubuntu/linux-azure-5.3*

ubuntu/linux-azure-edge*

ubuntu/linux-gcp*

ubuntu/linux-gcp-5.3*

ubuntu/linux-gke-4.15*

ubuntu/linux-gke-5.4*

ubuntu/linux-gkeop-5.4*

ubuntu/linux-hwe*

ubuntu/linux-oem*

ubuntu/linux-oracle-5.0*

ubuntu/linux-oracle-5.3*

ubuntu/linux-aws-5.11*

ubuntu/linux-aws-5.13*

ubuntu/linux-aws-5.15*

ubuntu/linux-aws-5.8*

ubuntu/linux-azure-5.11*

ubuntu/linux-azure-5.13*

ubuntu/linux-azure-5.15*

ubuntu/linux-azure-5.8*

ubuntu/linux-azure-fde*

ubuntu/linux-azure-fde-5.15*

ubuntu/linux-gcp-5.11*

ubuntu/linux-gcp-5.13*

ubuntu/linux-gcp-5.15*

ubuntu/linux-gcp-5.8*

ubuntu/linux-gke*

ubuntu/linux-gke-5.15*

ubuntu/linux-gkeop-5.15*

ubuntu/linux-hwe-5.11*

ubuntu/linux-hwe-5.13*

ubuntu/linux-hwe-5.15*

ubuntu/linux-hwe-5.8*

ubuntu/linux-ibm-5.15*

ubuntu/linux-intel-5.13*

ubuntu/linux-intel-iotg-5.15*

ubuntu/linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.15*

ubuntu/linux-nvidia-tegra-5.15*

ubuntu/linux-oem-5.10*

ubuntu/linux-oem-5.13*

ubuntu/linux-oem-5.6*

ubuntu/linux-oracle-5.11*

ubuntu/linux-oracle-5.13*

ubuntu/linux-oracle-5.15*

ubuntu/linux-oracle-5.8*

ubuntu/linux-raspi2*

ubuntu/linux-riscv*

ubuntu/linux-riscv-5.11*

ubuntu/linux-riscv-5.15*

ubuntu/linux-riscv-5.8*

ubuntu/linux*

ubuntu/linux-allwinner-5.19*

ubuntu/linux-aws*

ubuntu/linux-aws-5.19*

ubuntu/linux-aws-6.2*

ubuntu/linux-aws-6.5*

ubuntu/linux-aws-6.8<6.8.0-1027.29~22.04.1

6.8.0-1027.29~22.04.1

ubuntu/linux-azure*

ubuntu/linux-azure-5.19*

ubuntu/linux-azure-6.2*

ubuntu/linux-azure-6.5*

ubuntu/linux-azure-6.8<6.8.0-1025.30~22.04.1

6.8.0-1025.30~22.04.1

ubuntu/linux-azure-fde*

ubuntu/linux-azure-fde-5.19*

ubuntu/linux-azure-fde-6.2*

ubuntu/linux-gcp*

ubuntu/linux-gcp-5.19*

ubuntu/linux-gcp-6.2*

ubuntu/linux-gcp-6.5*

ubuntu/linux-gcp-6.8<6.8.0-1026.28~22.04.1

6.8.0-1026.28~22.04.1

ubuntu/linux-gke*

ubuntu/linux-gkeop*

ubuntu/linux-hwe-5.19*

ubuntu/linux-hwe-6.2*

ubuntu/linux-hwe-6.5*

ubuntu/linux-hwe-6.8<6.8.0-57.59~22.04.1

6.8.0-57.59~22.04.1

ubuntu/linux-ibm*

ubuntu/linux-ibm-6.8<6.8.0-1023.23~22.04.1

6.8.0-1023.23~22.04.1

ubuntu/linux-intel-iot-realtime*

ubuntu/linux-intel-iotg*

ubuntu/linux-kvm*

ubuntu/linux-lowlatency*

ubuntu/linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.19*

ubuntu/linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.2*

ubuntu/linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.5*

ubuntu/linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.8<6.8.0-56.58.1~22.04.1

6.8.0-56.58.1~22.04.1

ubuntu/linux-nvidia*

ubuntu/linux-nvidia-6.2*

ubuntu/linux-nvidia-6.5*

ubuntu/linux-nvidia-6.8<6.8.0-1024.27~22.04.1

6.8.0-1024.27~22.04.1

ubuntu/linux-nvidia-tegra*

ubuntu/linux-nvidia-tegra-igx*

ubuntu/linux-oem-5.17*

ubuntu/linux-oem-6.0*

ubuntu/linux-oem-6.1*

ubuntu/linux-oem-6.5*

ubuntu/linux-oracle*

ubuntu/linux-oracle-6.5*

ubuntu/linux-oracle-6.8<6.8.0-1022.23~22.04.1

6.8.0-1022.23~22.04.1

ubuntu/linux-raspi*

ubuntu/linux-realtime*

ubuntu/linux-riscv*

ubuntu/linux-riscv-5.19*

ubuntu/linux-riscv-6.5*

ubuntu/linux-riscv-6.8<6.8.0-56.58.1~22.04.1

6.8.0-56.58.1~22.04.1

ubuntu/linux-starfive-5.19*

ubuntu/linux-starfive-6.2*

ubuntu/linux-starfive-6.5*

ubuntu/linux-xilinx-zynqmp*

ubuntu/linux-bluefield*

ubuntu/linux-intel-iot-realtime*

ubuntu/linux-realtime*

ubuntu/linux-realtime-6.8<6.8.1-1018.19~22.04.1

6.8.1-1018.19~22.04.1

ubuntu/linux-aws-fips*

ubuntu/linux-azure-fips*

ubuntu/linux-fips*

ubuntu/linux-gcp-fips*

ubuntu/linux-aws-fips*

ubuntu/linux-azure-fips*

ubuntu/linux-fips*

ubuntu/linux-gcp-fips*

ubuntu/linux<6.8.0-56.58

6.8.0-56.58

ubuntu/linux-aws<6.8.0-1025.27

6.8.0-1025.27

ubuntu/linux-azure<6.8.0-1025.30

6.8.0-1025.30

ubuntu/linux-azure-6.11<6.11.0-1012.12~24.04.1

6.11.0-1012.12~24.04.1

ubuntu/linux-azure-nvidia<6.8.0-1014.15

6.8.0-1014.15

ubuntu/linux-gcp<6.8.0-1026.28

6.8.0-1026.28

ubuntu/linux-gcp-6.11<6.11.0-1011.11~24.04.1

6.11.0-1011.11~24.04.1

ubuntu/linux-gke<6.8.0-1021.25

6.8.0-1021.25

ubuntu/linux-gkeop<6.8.0-1008.10

6.8.0-1008.10

ubuntu/linux-ibm<6.8.0-1022.22

6.8.0-1022.22

ubuntu/linux-lowlatency<6.8.0-56.58.1

6.8.0-56.58.1

ubuntu/linux-nvidia<6.8.0-1024.27

6.8.0-1024.27

ubuntu/linux-nvidia-6.11<6.11.0-1007.7

6.11.0-1007.7

ubuntu/linux-nvidia-lowlatency<6.8.0-1024.27.1

6.8.0-1024.27.1

ubuntu/linux-nvidia-tegra<6.8.0-1004.4

6.8.0-1004.4

ubuntu/linux-oem-6.11<6.11.0-1015.15

6.11.0-1015.15

ubuntu/linux-oem-6.8<6.8.0-1024.24

6.8.0-1024.24

ubuntu/linux-oracle<6.8.0-1022.23

6.8.0-1022.23

ubuntu/linux-raspi<6.8.0-1028.32

6.8.0-1028.32

ubuntu/linux-raspi-realtime*

ubuntu/linux-realtime*

ubuntu/linux-riscv<6.8.0-56.58.1

6.8.0-56.58.1

ubuntu/linux-xilinx<6.8.0-1017.18

6.8.0-1017.18

ubuntu/linux-raspi-realtime<6.8.0-2023.24

6.8.0-2023.24

ubuntu/linux-realtime<6.8.1-1018.19

6.8.1-1018.19

ubuntu/linux-fips<6.8.0-78.78+fips1

6.8.0-78.78+fips1

ubuntu/linux-vmware*

Remediation

Recommended actions to resolve this vulnerability, in priority order.

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Fixed in 6.8.0-1027.29~22.04.1
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Fixed in 6.8.0-1025.30~22.04.1
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Fixed in 6.8.0-1026.28~22.04.1
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Fixed in 6.8.0-57.59~22.04.1
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Fixed in 6.8.0-1023.23~22.04.1
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Fixed in 6.8.0-56.58.1~22.04.1
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Fixed in 6.8.0-1024.27~22.04.1
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Fixed in 6.8.0-1022.23~22.04.1
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Fixed in 6.8.0-56.58.1~22.04.1
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Fixed in 6.8.1-1018.19~22.04.1
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Fixed in 6.8.0-56.58
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Fixed in 6.8.0-1025.27
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Fixed in 6.8.0-1025.30
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Fixed in 6.11.0-1012.12~24.04.1
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Fixed in 6.8.0-1014.15
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Fixed in 6.8.0-1026.28
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Fixed in 6.8.0-1024.27
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Fixed in 6.8.0-1024.24
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Fixed in 6.8.0-1022.23
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Fixed in 6.8.0-1028.32
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Fixed in 6.8.0-1017.18
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Fixed in 6.8.0-2023.24
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Fixed in 6.8.1-1018.19
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Fixed in 6.8.0-78.78+fips1
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Fixed in 6.11.4-1
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Fixed in 6.12.107-1Fixed in 6.12.115-2Fixed in 7.2.12-1Fixed in 7.2.15-1

Event History

Oct 21, 2024

CVE Published

via MITRE·07:39 PM

Data Sourced

via MITRE·07:39 PM

DescriptionSeverity

Data Sourced

via Red Hat·08:03 PM

DescriptionSeverityAffected Software

Data Sourced

via OSV·08:15 PM

DescriptionSeverityAffected Software

Data Sourced

via NVD·08:15 PM

RemedyDescriptionSeverityAffected Software

Sep 3, 2025

Data Sourced

via Microsoft·10:48 PM

DescriptionSeverityWeakness

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2024-50028?

CVE-2024-50028 has a moderate severity rating due to potential impact on system stability.

How do I fix CVE-2024-50028?

To fix CVE-2024-50028, update your Linux kernel to version 6.12-rc2 or later.

What versions of the Linux kernel are affected by CVE-2024-50028?

CVE-2024-50028 affects Linux kernel versions from 5.9 to 6.11.4 and includes 6.12-rc1 and 6.12-rc2.

Can CVE-2024-50028 lead to system crashes?

Yes, CVE-2024-50028 can potentially lead to system crashes due to improper handling of thermal zone objects.

Is CVE-2024-50028 a local or remote vulnerability?

CVE-2024-50028 is classified as a local vulnerability as it requires local system access to exploit.

CVE-2024-50028: thermal: core: Reference count the zone in thermal_zone_get_by_id()

Other sources

Affected Software

Remediation

Event History

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2024-50028?

How do I fix CVE-2024-50028?

What versions of the Linux kernel are affected by CVE-2024-50028?

Can CVE-2024-50028 lead to system crashes?

Is CVE-2024-50028 a local or remote vulnerability?

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