CVEvulnerability

CVE-2021-46994

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2024-02-28 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
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