CVE-2024-46768

kernel: hwmon: (hp-wmi-sensors) Check if WMI event data exists

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

5.5

CVSS 3.1

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Published · September 18, 2024

Updated · November 21, 2025

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

hwmon: (hp-wmi-sensors) Check if WMI event data exists

The BIOS can choose to return no event data in response to a WMI event, so the ACPI object passed to the WMI notify handler can be NULL.

Check for such a situation and ignore the event in such a case.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 5.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE-476 · NULL Pointer Dereference