PT-2018-2818 · Linux · Linux Kernel
Published
2018-12-03
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Updated
2018-12-03
CVSS v2.0
4.7
Medium
| Vector | AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C |
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions
Linux kernel (affected versions not specified)
Description
The issue is related to a null pointer dereference in the acpi fan probe handler of the Linux kernel's drivers/acpi/fan.ko module. An attacker can exploit this by connecting an ACPI Fan device that appears as a Platform device with the identifier "PNP0C0B" and a type other than FWNODE ACPI. This can cause the iowarrior probe function in iowarrior.c to assign a NULL value to the
device variable when the device type is not FWNODE ACPI (e.g., FWNODE OF), leading to a null pointer dereference when accessing device->driver data.Recommendations
At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.
NULL Pointer Dereference
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Affected Products
Linux Kernel