CVE-2024-26978

Name	CVE-2024-26978
Description	In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: serial: max310x: fix NULL pointer dereference in I2C instantiation When trying to instantiate a max14830 device from userspace: echo max14830 0x60 > /sys/bus/i2c/devices/i2c-2/new_device we get the following error: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address... ... Call trace: max310x_i2c_probe+0x48/0x170 [max310x] i2c_device_probe+0x150/0x2a0 ... Add check for validity of devtype to prevent the error, and abort probe with a meaningful error message.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
References	DSA-5681-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
linux (PTS)	buster	4.19.249-2	fixed
	buster (security)	4.19.304-1	fixed
	bullseye	5.10.209-2	vulnerable
	bullseye (security)	5.10.216-1	fixed
	bookworm	6.1.76-1	vulnerable
	bookworm (security)	6.1.90-1	fixed
	trixie	6.7.12-1	fixed
	sid	6.8.9-1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Origin
linux	source	buster	(not affected)
linux	source	bullseye	5.10.216-1	DSA-5681-1
linux	source	bookworm	6.1.85-1
linux	source	(unstable)	6.7.12-1

[buster] - linux <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)
https://git.kernel.org/linus/0d27056c24efd3d63a03f3edfbcfc4827086b110 (6.9-rc1)