CVE-2021-47526 serial: liteuart: Fix NULL pointer dereference in ->remove()

2024-05-2415:09:38

Linux

github.com

vulnerability

linux kernel

serial

liteuart

null pointer dereference

fix

cve-2021-47526

6.8 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

9.1%

JSON

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

serial: liteuart: Fix NULL pointer dereference in ->remove()

drvdata has to be set in _probe() - otherwise platform_get_drvdata()
causes null pointer dereference BUG in _remove().

CNA Affected

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        "version": "1da81e5562fa",
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    ],
    "programFiles": [
      "drivers/tty/serial/liteuart.c"
    ],
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  },
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      },
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        "version": "5.16",
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        "lessThanOrEqual": "*"
      }
    ],
    "programFiles": [
      "drivers/tty/serial/liteuart.c"
    ],
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