CVE-2024-26717

kernel: HID: i2c-hid-of: fix NULL-deref on failed power up

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

4.4

CVSS 3.1

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Published · April 3, 2024

Updated · October 31, 2026

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.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 4.4
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE-476 · NULL Pointer Dereference