CVE-2024-26717

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference

Publication date:

03/04/2024

Last modified:

07/01/2025

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: HID: i2c-hid-of: fix NULL-deref on failed power up A while back the I2C HID implementation was split in an ACPI and OF part, but the new OF driver never initialises the client pointer which is dereferenced on power-up failures.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.50 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): Low
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x

5.50

Severity 3.x

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.12 (including)	5.15.149 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.16 (including)	6.1.79 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	6.2 (including)	6.6.18 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	6.7 (including)	6.7.6 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.8:rc1::::::
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.8:rc2::::::

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CVE-2024-26717

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

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