# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2024-50056"
idYear: 2024
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-10-21T19:39:47.131Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T20:44:33.938Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:20.494Z"
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-2024-50056"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-50056.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-50056"
title: "usb: gadget: uvc: Fix ERR_PTR dereference in uvc_v4l2.c"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nusb: gadget: uvc: Fix ERR_PTR dereference in uvc_v4l2.c\n\nFix potential dereferencing of ERR_PTR() in find_format_by_pix()\nand uvc_v4l2_enum_format().\n\nFix the following smatch errors:\n\ndrivers/usb/gadget/function/uvc_v4l2.c:124 find_format_by_pix()\nerror: 'fmtdesc' dereferencing possible ERR_PTR()\n\ndrivers/usb/gadget/function/uvc_v4l2.c:392 uvc_v4l2_enum_format()\nerror: 'fmtdesc' dereferencing possible ERR_PTR()\n\nAlso, fix similar issue in uvc_v4l2_try_format() for potential\ndereferencing of ERR_PTR()."
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