CVE-2024-46768: 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: hwmon: (hp-wmi-sensors) Check if WMI event data exists The BIOS can choose to return no event data in response to a WMI event, so the ACPI object passed to the WMI notify handler can be NULL. Check for such a situation and ignore the event in such a case.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 6.5, before 6.6.51 (fixed in 6.6.51); from 6.7, before 6.10.10 (fixed in 6.10.10); version 6.11 only

Published 2024-09-18. Last modified 2026-06-17.