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CVE-2024-26978

serial: max310x: fix NULL pointer dereference in I2C instantiation PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: serial: max310x: fix NULL pointer dereference in I2C instantiation When trying to instantiate a max14830 device from userspace: echo max14830 0x60 > /sys/bus/i2c/devices/i2c-2/new_device we get the following error: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address... ... Call trace: max310x_i2c_probe+0x48/0x170 [max310x] i2c_device_probe+0x150/0x2a0 ... Add check for validity of devtype to prevent the error, and abort probe with a meaningful error message.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected f5c252aaa1be5d38604e58e9bd335065f767d0d8 before 7d271b798add90c6196539167c019d0817285cf0; affected 85d79478710ad2cbf11857aec107084a7104943e before c45e53c27b78afd6c81fc25608003576f27b5735; affected 2e1f2d9a9bdbe12ee475c82a45ac46a278e8049a before 12609c76b755dbeb1645c0aacc0f0f4743b2eff3; affected 2e1f2d9a9bdbe12ee475c82a45ac46a278e8049a before 2160ad6861c4a21d3fa553d7b2aaec6634a37f8a; affected 2e1f2d9a9bdbe12ee475c82a45ac46a278e8049a before 5cd8af02b466e1beeae13e2de3dc58fcc7925e5a; affected 2e1f2d9a9bdbe12ee475c82a45ac46a278e8049a before aeca49661fd02fd56fb026768b580ce301b45733; affected 2e1f2d9a9bdbe12ee475c82a45ac46a278e8049a before 0d27056c24efd3d63a03f3edfbcfc4827086b110; affected 5.4.272 before 5.4.274; affected 5.10.213 before 5.10.215
Linux / Linuxaffected 6.0; unaffected 0 before 6.0; unaffected 5.4.274 through 5.4.*; unaffected 5.10.215 through 5.10.*; unaffected 6.1.84 through 6.1.*; unaffected 6.6.24 through 6.6.*; unaffected 6.7.12 through 6.7.*; unaffected 6.8.3 through 6.8.*; unaffected 6.9 through *

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