CVE-2024-26978: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: before 5.4.274 (fixed in 5.4.274); from 5.5, before 5.10.215 (fixed in 5.10.215); from 5.11, before 6.1.84 (fixed in 6.1.84); from 6.2, before 6.6.24 (fixed in 6.6.24); from 6.7, before 6.7.12 (fixed in 6.7.12); from 6.8, up to and including 6.8.3

Published 2024-05-01. Last modified 2026-06-17.