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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2024-49986"
idYear: 2024
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-10-21T18:02:30.507Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T11:40:54.750Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:16.009Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-49986"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-49986.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-49986"
title: "platform/x86: x86-android-tablets: Fix use after free on platform_device_register() errors"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nplatform/x86: x86-android-tablets: Fix use after free on platform_device_register() errors\n\nx86_android_tablet_remove() frees the pdevs[] array, so it should not\nbe used after calling x86_android_tablet_remove().\n\nWhen platform_device_register() fails, store the pdevs[x] PTR_ERR() value\ninto the local ret variable before calling x86_android_tablet_remove()\nto avoid using pdevs[] after it has been freed."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"5eba0141206ea521bbcfcf5067c174e825e943dd","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ba0b09a2f327319e252d8f3032019b958c0a5cd9"},{"version":"5eba0141206ea521bbcfcf5067c174e825e943dd","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"aac871e493fc8809e60209d9899b1af07e9dbfc8"},{"version":"5eba0141206ea521bbcfcf5067c174e825e943dd","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f08adc5177bd4343df09033f62ab562c09ba7f7d"},{"version":"5eba0141206ea521bbcfcf5067c174e825e943dd","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"73a98cf79e4dbfa3d0c363e826c65aae089b313c"},{"version":"5eba0141206ea521bbcfcf5067c174e825e943dd","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2fae3129c0c08e72b1fe93e61fd8fd203252094a"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.17","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.17"},{"version":"6.1.118","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.55","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.10.14","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.10.*"},{"version":"6.11.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.11.*"},{"version":"6.12","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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