UBUNTU-CVE-2024-26717

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2024-26717

    Published: 3 Apr 2024Last Modified: 8 Oct 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2024-26717
    Aliases:
    USN-6766-1
    USN-6766-2
    USN-6766-3

    Summary:

    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://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-26717, https://git.kernel.org/linus/00aab7dcb2267f2aef59447602f34501efe1a07f, https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/62f5d219edbd174829aa18d4b3d97cd5fefbb783, https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d7d7a0e3b6f5adc45f23667cbb919e99093a5b5c, https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4cad91344a62536a2949873bad6365fbb6232776, https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e28d6b63aeecbda450935fb58db0e682ea8212d3, https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/00aab7dcb2267f2aef59447602f34501efe1a07f, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-26717, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6766-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6766-2, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6766-3, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6795-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6828-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6895-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6895-2, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6900-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6895-3, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6895-4

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: linux-hwe-edge

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/linux-hwe-edge?arch=source&distro=xenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    4.8.0-28.30~16.04.1
    4.8.0-30.32~16.04.1
    4.8.0-32.34~16.04.1
    4.8.0-34.36~16.04.1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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