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

hwmon: (nct6775) Fix crash in clear_caseopen

Paweł Marciniak reports the following crash, observed when clearing
the chassis intrusion alarm.

BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000028
PGD 0 P4D 0
Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI
CPU: 3 PID: 4815 Comm: bash Tainted: G S 5.16.2-200.fc35.x86_64 #1
Hardware name: To Be Filled By O.E.M. To Be Filled By O.E.M./Z97 Extreme4, BIOS P2.60A 05/03/2018
RIP: 0010:clear_caseopen+0x5a/0x120 [nct6775]
Code: 68 70 e8 e9 32 b1 e3 85 c0 0f 85 d2 00 00 00 48 83 7c 24 ...
RSP: 0018:ffffabcb02803dd8 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000002 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: ffff8e8808192880 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff8e87c7509a68
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 000000000000000a
R10: 000000000000000a R11: f000000000000000 R12: 000000000000001f
R13: ffff8e87c7509828 R14: ffff8e87c7509a68 R15: ffff8e88494527a0
FS: 00007f4db9151740(0000) GS:ffff8e8ebfec0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000000000000028 CR3: 0000000166b66001 CR4: 00000000001706e0
Call Trace:
<TASK>
kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x11c/0x1b0
new_sync_write+0x10b/0x180
vfs_write+0x209/0x2a0
ksys_write+0x4f/0xc0
do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae

The problem is that the device passed to clear_caseopen() is the hwmon
device, not the platform device, and the platform data is not set in the
hwmon device. Store the pointer to sio_data in struct nct6775_data and
get if from there if needed.
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Thu, 19 Dec 2024 09:15:00 +0000

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{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Wed, 18 Sep 2024 16:30:00 +0000

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First Time appeared Linux
Linux linux Kernel
Weaknesses CWE-476
CPEs cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.17:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Linux

Published:

Updated: 2025-05-04T08:22:19.678Z

Reserved: 2024-06-20T11:09:39.055Z

Link: CVE-2022-48750

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T15:25:01.617Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2024-06-20T12:15:13.223

Modified: 2024-11-21T07:33:55.473

Link: CVE-2022-48750

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2024-06-20T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2022-48750 - Bugzilla

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