CVEvulnerability
CVE-2021-47386
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2024-05-21
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
hwmon: (w83791d) 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 multi-line 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/16887ae4e3defd2c4e7913b6c539f33eaf4eac5c Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/44d3c480e4e2a75bf6296a18b4356157991ccd80 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/516d9055039017a20a698103be2b556b4c976bb8 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/943c15ac1b84d378da26bba41c83c67e16499ac4 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/16887ae4e3defd2c4e7913b6c539f33eaf4eac5c Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/44d3c480e4e2a75bf6296a18b4356157991ccd80 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/516d9055039017a20a698103be2b556b4c976bb8 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/943c15ac1b84d378da26bba41c83c67e16499ac4 Patch