Threats tagged 'ghsa-56rv-pwm3-v8q5'

CVE-2024-50233 is a medium severity vulnerability in the Linux kernel's staging iio frequency driver for the AD9832 device. It involves a division by zero error in the ad9832_calc_freqreg() function caused by clk_get_rate() returning zero. This occurs because the check in ad9832_write_frequency() does not prevent division by zero when the frequency output (fout) is zero. The fout value is derived from a text buffer and can be any value, leading to potential kernel instability or crash.