CVE-2024-26717: HID: i2c-hid-of: fix NULL-deref on failed power up
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2024-26717 is a medium (CVSS 5.5) NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in linux. EPSS estimates a 0.23% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 13.8% of scored vulnerabilities.
Not severe (CVSS 5.5, local access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources
Source freshness unavailable
How is this decided?Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 17 · Related 13Timeline
- 03-04-2024PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 11-05-2026Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
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.
CVSS metrics
3 scores · 3 sources · 1 version- OSV · UbuntuEcosystem advisory · calculated5.5MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- OSV · DebianEcosystem advisory · calculated5.5MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS trend
Probability
0.23%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
14%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
No change 0.00 pp
From 0.23% on 04-10-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEVNot in the CISA KEV catalog.
ENISA CNWNot in the ENISA CNW catalog.
CIRCLNot in the CIRCL catalog.
Public exploits
0 foundNo public exploits indexed.
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeAffected systems
Known conditions: local access, low-privilege account, no user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.
Ubuntu104 products
- linux< 5.15.0-106.116
- linux-allwinner-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
- linux-aws< 5.15.0-1061.67
- linux-aws-5.0All versions (No fix recorded)
- linux-aws-5.11All versions (No fix recorded)
Linux2 products
- linux≥ b33752c300232d7f95dd9a4353947d0c9e6a0e52, < 62f5d219edbd174829aa18d4b3d97cd5fefbb783 | ≥ b33752c300232d7f95dd9a4353947d0c9e6a0e52, < d7d7a0e3b6f5adc45f23667cbb919e99093a5b5c | ≥ b33752c300232d7f95dd9a4353947d0c9e6a0e52, < 4cad91344a62536a2949873bad6365fbb6232776 | ≥ b33752c300232d7f95dd9a4353947d0c9e6a0e52, < e28d6b63aeecbda450935fb58db0e682ea8212d3 | ≥ b33752c300232d7f95dd9a4353947d0c9e6a0e52, < 00aab7dcb2267f2aef59447602f34501efe1a07f | 5.12
- linux_kernel≥ 5.12, < 5.15.149 | ≥ 5.16, < 6.1.79 | ≥ 6.2, < 6.6.18 | ≥ 6.7, < 6.7.6 | 6.8:rc1 | 6.8:rc2
Debian1 product
- linux< 6.1.82-1 | < 6.7.7-1
3 vendors · 107 products
