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HID: i2c-hid-of: fix NULL-deref on failed power up

Type: advisorySources: OSV

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.

Products
Kernel
Affected versions
Not specified
Fixed versions
5.15.149, 6.1.79, 6.6.18, 6.7.6
CVEs
CVE-2024-26717
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
5 Nov 2026, 00:56 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

HID: i2c-hid-of: fix NULL-deref on failed power up

core-osv · Original source

Published 3 Apr 2024, 14:55 UTC

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.

osv:CVE-2024-26717

Kernel

Fixed versions: 5.15.149, 6.1.79, 6.6.18, 6.7.6

Complete source record
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