CVE-2024-46768 (GCVE-0-2024-46768)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-09-18 07:12 – Updated: 2025-05-04 09:33
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Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: hwmon: (hp-wmi-sensors) Check if WMI event data exists The BIOS can choose to return no event data in response to a WMI event, so the ACPI object passed to the WMI notify handler can be NULL. Check for such a situation and ignore the event in such a case.
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Linux Linux Affected: 23902f98f8d4811ab84dde6419569a5b374f8122 , < 217539e994e53206bbf3fb330261cc78c480d311 (git)
Affected: 23902f98f8d4811ab84dde6419569a5b374f8122 , < 4b19c83ba108aa66226da5b79810e4d19e005f12 (git)
Affected: 23902f98f8d4811ab84dde6419569a5b374f8122 , < a54da9df75cd1b4b5028f6c60f9a211532680585 (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 6.5
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.5 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.51 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.10.10 , ≤ 6.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.11 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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