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CVE-2024-38571: thermal/drivers/tsens: Fix null pointer dereference

• 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: 2024-06-19 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-476

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: thermal/drivers/tsens: Fix null pointer dereference compute_intercept_slope() is called from calibrate_8960() (in tsens-8960.c) as compute_intercept_slope(priv, p1, NULL, ONE_PT_CALIB) which lead to null pointer dereference (if DEBUG or DYNAMIC_DEBUG set). Fix this bug by adding null pointer check. Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.

Affected products

• Linux kernel: from 5.13 before 5.15.161; from 5.16 before 6.1.93; from 6.2 before 6.6.33; from 6.7 before 6.8.12; from 6.9 before 6.9.3 — fixed in 5.15.161, 6.1.93, 6.6.33, 6.8.12, 6.9.3

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Linux kernel 5.15.161, 6.1.93, 6.6.33, 6.8.12. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/06d17744b77bc6cb29a6c785f4fad8c4163ee653
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/11c731386ed82053c2759b6fea1a82ae946e5e0f
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/27600e0c5272a262b0903e35ae1df37d33c5c1ad
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2d5ca6e4a2872e92a32fdfd87e04dd7d3ced7278
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d998ddc86a27c92140b9f7984ff41e3d1d07a48f
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fcf5f1b5f308f2eb422f6aca55d295b25890906b
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/06d17744b77bc6cb29a6c785f4fad8c4163ee653
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/11c731386ed82053c2759b6fea1a82ae946e5e0f
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/27600e0c5272a262b0903e35ae1df37d33c5c1ad
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2d5ca6e4a2872e92a32fdfd87e04dd7d3ced7278
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d998ddc86a27c92140b9f7984ff41e3d1d07a48f
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fcf5f1b5f308f2eb422f6aca55d295b25890906b

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