CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-68461
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-08-15
- Last modified
- 2026-10-19
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-665
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
device property: initialize the remaining fields of fwnode_handle in fwnode_init()
If a firmware node is allocated on the stack (for instance: temporary
software node whose life-time we control) or on the heap - but using a
non-zeroing allocation function - and initialized using fwnode_init(),
its secondary pointer will contain uninitialized memory which likely
will be neither NULL nor IS_ERR() and so may end up being dereferenced
(for example: in dev_to_swnode()). Set fwnode->secondary to NULL on
initialization. While at it: initialize the remaining fields of struct
fwnode_handle too just to be sure.
[ Fix typo in commit message. - Danilo ]
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-665 Improper Initialization weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0198d579948322cda5178b9672d448375a32f947 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/173b61c9276c7b3a5fbcc63ae7aafc897fee1e18 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7eba000621fff223dd7bab484d48918c7c77a307 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9c86a1f930bb2ddb85f867b4736716e82a4a4683 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c81e2af41de6a159837c7129a4fc444ac6e48046 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c8542b68ba6ef4f61072098893a3f5b71c569b6c git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f0b4e1cc8ad76baf49d898727eb52e91a4ef0544 git.kernel.org