CVE-2018-10074

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2018-04-12 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-476

Description

The hi3660_stub_clk_probe function in drivers/clk/hisilicon/clk-hi3660-stub.c in the Linux kernel before 4.16 allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) by triggering a failure of resource retrieval.

Affected products

Linux kernel: before 4.16 — fixed in 4.16

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Linux kernel 4.16. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=9903e41ae1f5d50c93f268ca3304d4d7c64b9311
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/9903e41ae1f5d50c93f268ca3304d4d7c64b9311
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=9903e41ae1f5d50c93f268ca3304d4d7c64b9311
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/9903e41ae1f5d50c93f268ca3304d4d7c64b9311

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