CVE-2026-45978 (GCVE-0-2026-45978)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-27 12:18 – Updated: 2026-05-27 12:18
VLAI
Title
staging: greybus: lights: avoid NULL deref
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: staging: greybus: lights: avoid NULL deref gb_lights_light_config() stores channel_count before allocating the channels array. If kcalloc() fails, gb_lights_release() iterates the non-zero count and dereferences light->channels, which is NULL. Allocate channels first and only then publish channels_count so the cleanup path can't walk a NULL pointer.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 2870b52bae4c81823ffcb3ed2b0626fb39d64f48 , < a118724d7641b832fa14323e2733e28ae4834552 (git)
Affected: 2870b52bae4c81823ffcb3ed2b0626fb39d64f48 , < 3cbe694d235d96f628ec7dc6ae4d8bdddb768699 (git)
Affected: 2870b52bae4c81823ffcb3ed2b0626fb39d64f48 , < ba5022162da63059bae36c4fd84d7031f582c71f (git)
Affected: 2870b52bae4c81823ffcb3ed2b0626fb39d64f48 , < 65f2c608096d766540953d9b170d216aa3b5eb95 (git)
Affected: 2870b52bae4c81823ffcb3ed2b0626fb39d64f48 , < 01b91cb3e748032fd96bbe0043812b426a52f091 (git)
Affected: 2870b52bae4c81823ffcb3ed2b0626fb39d64f48 , < 06162d85f830582da6e9e5fcf9c9504d6da9ae0b (git)
Affected: 2870b52bae4c81823ffcb3ed2b0626fb39d64f48 , < da46264a7016034a5bbbad034c012ef218b7d0af (git)
Affected: 2870b52bae4c81823ffcb3ed2b0626fb39d64f48 , < efcffd9a6ad8d190651498d5eda53bfc7cf683a7 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 4.9
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.9 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.252 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.202 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.165 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.128 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.75 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.14 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.19.4 , ≤ 6.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.0 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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      "title": "kernel: staging: greybus: lights: avoid NULL deref",
      "url": "https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-45978.json",
      "version": "3"
    },
    "suse_vex": {
      "aggregate_severity": "moderate",
      "current_release_date": "2026-08-27T16:58:21Z",
      "cve": "CVE-2026-45978",
      "id": "CVE-2026-45978",
      "initial_release_date": "2026-05-28T03:55:03Z",
      "product_status:known_affected": "57",
      "product_status:known_not_affected": "242",
      "source": "SUSE CSAF VEX",
      "status": "interim",
      "title": "SUSE CVE CVE-2026-45978",
      "url": "https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/csaf-vex/cve-2026-45978.json",
      "version": "5"
    }
  }
}



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