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hwmon: (hp-wmi-sensors) Check if WMI event data exists
Type: advisorySources: OSV
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.
- Products
- Kernel
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 6.10.10, 6.6.51
- CVEs
- CVE-2024-46768
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 4 Nov 2026, 15:23 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
hwmon: (hp-wmi-sensors) Check if WMI event data exists
core-osv · Original sourcePublished 18 Sept 2024, 07:12 UTC
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.
osv:CVE-2024-46768
Kernel
Fixed versions: 6.6.51, 6.10.10
Complete source record
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