CVE-2024-26717

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    CVE-2024-26717

    Published: 3 Apr 2024Last Modified: 12 Aug 2026

    Summary: HID: i2c-hid-of: fix NULL-deref on failed power up

    Details: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: HID: i2c-hid-of: fix NULL-deref on failed power up A while back the I2C HID implementation was split in an ACPI and OF part, but the new OF driver never initialises the client pointer which is dereferenced on power-up failures.

    References: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/00aab7dcb2267f2aef59447602f34501efe1a07f, https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4cad91344a62536a2949873bad6365fbb6232776, https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/62f5d219edbd174829aa18d4b3d97cd5fefbb783, https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d7d7a0e3b6f5adc45f23667cbb919e99093a5b5c, https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e28d6b63aeecbda450935fb58db0e682ea8212d3, https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/26xxx/CVE-2024-26717.json, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-26717, https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

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    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- b33752c300232d7f95dd9a4353947d0c9e6a0e52
    Fixed -62f5d219edbd174829aa18d4b3d97cd5fefbb783

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