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CVE-2024-26717: HID: i2c-hid-of: fix NULL-deref on failed power up

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-04-03 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-476

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: HID: i2c-hid-of: fix NULL-deref on failed power up A while back the I2C HID implementation was split in an ACPI and OF part, but the new OF driver never initialises the client pointer which is dereferenced on power-up failures.

Affected products

• Linux kernel: from 5.12 before 5.15.149; from 5.16 before 6.1.79; from 6.2 before 6.6.18; from 6.7 before 6.7.6; 6.8-rc1, 6.8-rc2 — fixed in 5.15.149, 6.1.79, 6.6.18, 6.7.6

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Linux kernel 5.15.149, 6.1.79, 6.6.18, 6.7.6. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/00aab7dcb2267f2aef59447602f34501efe1a07f
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4cad91344a62536a2949873bad6365fbb6232776
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/62f5d219edbd174829aa18d4b3d97cd5fefbb783
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d7d7a0e3b6f5adc45f23667cbb919e99093a5b5c
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e28d6b63aeecbda450935fb58db0e682ea8212d3
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/00aab7dcb2267f2aef59447602f34501efe1a07f
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4cad91344a62536a2949873bad6365fbb6232776
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/62f5d219edbd174829aa18d4b3d97cd5fefbb783
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d7d7a0e3b6f5adc45f23667cbb919e99093a5b5c
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e28d6b63aeecbda450935fb58db0e682ea8212d3

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