CVEvulnerability
CVE-2021-47385
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2024-05-21
- 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:
hwmon: (w83792d) Fix NULL pointer dereference by removing unnecessary structure field
If driver read val value sufficient for
(val & 0x08) && (!(val & 0x80)) && ((val & 0x7) == ((val >> 4) & 0x7))
from device then Null pointer dereference occurs.
(It is possible if tmp = 0b0xyz1xyz, where same literals mean same numbers)
Also lm75[] does not serve a purpose anymore after switching to
devm_i2c_new_dummy_device() in w83791d_detect_subclients().
The patch fixes possible NULL pointer dereference by removing lm75[].
Found by Linux Driver Verification project (linuxtesting.org).
[groeck: Dropped unnecessary continuation lines, fixed multipline alignment]
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 5.4.151)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.71)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.14.10)
• linux linux kernel 5.15
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0f36b88173f028e372668ae040ab1a496834d278 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1499bb2c3a87a2efea0065adab2bd66badee61c3 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/200ced5ba724d8bbf29dfac4ed1e17a39ccaccd1 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/24af1fe376e22c42238a4a604d31e46c486876c3 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0f36b88173f028e372668ae040ab1a496834d278 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1499bb2c3a87a2efea0065adab2bd66badee61c3 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/200ced5ba724d8bbf29dfac4ed1e17a39ccaccd1 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/24af1fe376e22c42238a4a604d31e46c486876c3 Patch