Vulnerabilities > CVE-2024-26978 - NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in Linux Kernel
Attack vector
LOCAL Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
LOW Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
HIGH 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.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7d271b798add90c6196539167c019d0817285cf0
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c45e53c27b78afd6c81fc25608003576f27b5735
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/12609c76b755dbeb1645c0aacc0f0f4743b2eff3
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2160ad6861c4a21d3fa553d7b2aaec6634a37f8a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5cd8af02b466e1beeae13e2de3dc58fcc7925e5a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/aeca49661fd02fd56fb026768b580ce301b45733
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0d27056c24efd3d63a03f3edfbcfc4827086b110