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.

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-26717

Affected Products

Vendor: Linux

Product: Linux

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.04% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 5.08% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-02-04 (when was this score calculated)

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/62f5d219edbd174829aa18d4b3d97cd5fefbb783
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d7d7a0e3b6f5adc45f23667cbb919e99093a5b5c
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4cad91344a62536a2949873bad6365fbb6232776
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e28d6b63aeecbda450935fb58db0e682ea8212d3
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/00aab7dcb2267f2aef59447602f34501efe1a07f

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