CVE-2024-26978 (GCVE-0-2024-26978)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-05-01 05:20 – Updated: 2026-05-23 15:40
VLAI
Title
serial: max310x: fix NULL pointer dereference in I2C instantiation
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: serial: max310x: fix NULL pointer dereference in I2C instantiation When trying to instantiate a max14830 device from userspace: echo max14830 0x60 > /sys/bus/i2c/devices/i2c-2/new_device we get the following error: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address... ... Call trace: max310x_i2c_probe+0x48/0x170 [max310x] i2c_device_probe+0x150/0x2a0 ... Add check for validity of devtype to prevent the error, and abort probe with a meaningful error message.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-06-06 18:50 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-476 - NULL Pointer Dereference
Assigner
Linux CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 7018 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: f5c252aaa1be5d38604e58e9bd335065f767d0d8 , < 7d271b798add90c6196539167c019d0817285cf0 (git)
Affected: 85d79478710ad2cbf11857aec107084a7104943e , < c45e53c27b78afd6c81fc25608003576f27b5735 (git)
Affected: 2e1f2d9a9bdbe12ee475c82a45ac46a278e8049a , < 12609c76b755dbeb1645c0aacc0f0f4743b2eff3 (git)
Affected: 2e1f2d9a9bdbe12ee475c82a45ac46a278e8049a , < 2160ad6861c4a21d3fa553d7b2aaec6634a37f8a (git)
Affected: 2e1f2d9a9bdbe12ee475c82a45ac46a278e8049a , < 5cd8af02b466e1beeae13e2de3dc58fcc7925e5a (git)
Affected: 2e1f2d9a9bdbe12ee475c82a45ac46a278e8049a , < aeca49661fd02fd56fb026768b580ce301b45733 (git)
Affected: 2e1f2d9a9bdbe12ee475c82a45ac46a278e8049a , < 0d27056c24efd3d63a03f3edfbcfc4827086b110 (git)
Affected: 5.4.272 , < 5.4.274 (semver)
Affected: 5.10.213 , < 5.10.215 (semver)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.0
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.0 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4.274 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.215 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.84 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.24 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.7.12 , ≤ 6.7.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.8.3 , ≤ 6.8.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.9 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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