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CVE-2024-39466: thermal/drivers/qcom/lmh: Check for SCM availability at probe

• 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: 2024-06-25 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-476

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: thermal/drivers/qcom/lmh: Check for SCM availability at probe Up until now, the necessary scm availability check has not been performed, leading to possible null pointer dereferences (which did happen for me on RB1). Fix that.

Affected products

• Linux kernel: from 5.15 before 5.15.161; from 5.16 before 6.1.94; from 6.2 before 6.6.34; from 6.7 before 6.9.5 — fixed in 5.15.161, 6.1.94, 6.6.34, 6.9.5

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Linux kernel 5.15.161, 6.1.94, 6.6.34, 6.9.5. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0a47ba94ec3d8f782b33e3d970cfcb769b962464
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2226b145afa5e13cb60dbe77fb20fb0666a1caf3
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/560d69c975072974c11434ca6953891e74c1a665
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/aa1a0807b4a76b44fb6b58a7e9087cd4b18ab41b
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d9d3490c48df572edefc0b64655259eefdcbb9be
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0a47ba94ec3d8f782b33e3d970cfcb769b962464
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2226b145afa5e13cb60dbe77fb20fb0666a1caf3
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/560d69c975072974c11434ca6953891e74c1a665
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/aa1a0807b4a76b44fb6b58a7e9087cd4b18ab41b
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d9d3490c48df572edefc0b64655259eefdcbb9be

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