CVE-2024-50290
Moderate
media: cx24116: prevent overflows on SNR calculus
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.
Exploit probability
0.3%
Published
November 19, 2024
Required by
Not available
Last source change
August 12, 2026
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
Open Source Vulnerabilities
CVE-2024-50290
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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.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
- 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://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/50xxx/CVE-2024-50290.json
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00001.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00002.html
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-50290