CVE-2024-38571

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: thermal/drivers/tsens: Fix null pointer dereference compute_intercept_slope() is called from calibrate_8960() (in tsens-8960.c) as compute_intercept_slope(priv, p1, NULL, ONE_PT_CALIB) which lead to null pointer dereference (if DEBUG or DYNAMIC_DEBUG set). Fix this bug by adding null pointer check. Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.

Score

CVSS 3.1 5.5 Medium

Status

Modified - 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67

Published

2024-06-19

Last modified

2026-05-11

Weaknesses

CWE-476

Affected products

• Linux Kernel (Linux)

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/06d17744b77bc6cb29a6c785f4fad8c4163ee653
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/11c731386ed82053c2759b6fea1a82ae946e5e0f
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/27600e0c5272a262b0903e35ae1df37d33c5c1ad
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2d5ca6e4a2872e92a32fdfd87e04dd7d3ced7278
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d998ddc86a27c92140b9f7984ff41e3d1d07a48f
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fcf5f1b5f308f2eb422f6aca55d295b25890906b