Description

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

tty: serial: ma35d1: Add a NULL check for of_node

The pdev->dev.of_node can be NULL if the "serial" node is absent.
Add a NULL check to return an error in such cases.

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-42248

CVSS Base Severity: MEDIUM

CVSS Base Score: 5.5

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

Affected Products

Vendor: Linux

Product: Linux

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.04% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 10.14% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-06-02 (when was this score calculated)

Stakeholder-Specific Vulnerability Categorization (SSVC)

SSVC Exploitation: none

SSVC Technical Impact: partial

SSVC Automatable: false

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-42248
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/23efa74cfe6eb923abb5b9bc51b2a04879013c67
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0e0e15ab2d3a094a38525d23c03d78ec7d14a40e
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/acd09ac253b5de8fd79fc61a482ee19154914c7a

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