CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-45869
5.5 MEDIUM
Official page ↗
- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2026-05-27
- Last modified
- 2026-06-25
- 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:
power: supply: wm97xx: Fix NULL pointer dereference in power_supply_changed()
In `probe()`, `request_irq()` is called before allocating/registering a
`power_supply` handle. If an interrupt is fired between the call to
`request_irq()` and `power_supply_register()`, the `power_supply` handle
will be used uninitialized in `power_supply_changed()` in
`wm97xx_bat_update()` (triggered from the interrupt handler). This will
lead to a `NULL` pointer dereference since
Fix this racy `NULL` pointer dereference by making sure the IRQ is
requested _after_ the registration of the `power_supply` handle. Since
the IRQ is the last thing requests in the `probe()` now, remove the
error path for freeing it. Instead add one for unregistering the
`power_supply` handle when IRQ request fails.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 2.6.32 < 5.10.252)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.202)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.165)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.128)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.75)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.18.14)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.19 < 6.19.4)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/39fe0eac6d755ef215026518985fcf8de9360e9e Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3d7b5391bb95505b3581c1fb77150c467ab92864 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/438f9a303ea8b55162b2d5376490c2ab3ec165a0 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/86183153c299e8bb1839e717286d6c6f39508a59 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/93bdf715d33cf5ee01c58e8546c2469c71ce082a Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9b7d77cb046b4487e8e511e04e62b6f416ce845c Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c0def811ad8d642dca9b6d31a198cc39f5f90837 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dfaf235d5a6b60cbf115a14a656946303ad007b7 Patch