CVE-2021-47384

hwmon: (w83793) Fix NULL pointer dereference by removing unnecessary structure field

Medium · published May 21, 2024

CVSS v3.1
5.3
EPSS
1%
Percentile
63.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

hwmon: (w83793) Fix NULL pointer dereference by removing unnecessary structure field

If driver read tmp value sufficient for

(tmp & 0x08) && (!(tmp & 0x80)) && ((tmp & 0x7) == ((tmp >> 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 alignments]

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.3 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.01028 · 63.4th percentile
Published
2024-05-21T15:03Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 21 MAY 15:03Z
    hwmon: (w83793) Fix NULL pointer dereference by removing unnecessary structure field
    cvelistv5