CVEvulnerability
CVE-2021-46994
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2024-02-28
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
can: mcp251x: fix resume from sleep before interface was brought up
Since 8ce8c0abcba3 the driver queues work via priv->restart_work when
resuming after suspend, even when the interface was not previously
enabled. This causes a null dereference error as the workqueue is only
allocated and initialized in mcp251x_open().
To fix this we move the workqueue init to mcp251x_can_probe() as there
is no reason to do it later and repeat it whenever mcp251x_open() is
called.
[mkl: fix error handling in mcp251x_stop()]
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.38)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.11.22)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.12 < 5.12.5)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/03c427147b2d3e503af258711af4fc792b89b0af Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6f8f1c27b577de15f69fefce3c502bb6300d825c Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e1e10a390fd9479209c4d834d916ca5e6d5d396b Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eecb4df8ec9f896b19ee05bfa632ac6c1dcd8f21 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/03c427147b2d3e503af258711af4fc792b89b0af Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6f8f1c27b577de15f69fefce3c502bb6300d825c Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e1e10a390fd9479209c4d834d916ca5e6d5d396b Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eecb4df8ec9f896b19ee05bfa632ac6c1dcd8f21 Patch