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CVE-2026-46269 (GCVE-0-2026-46269)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-06-03 15:50 – Updated: 2026-06-03 15:50
VLAI
Title
pinctrl: canaan: k230: Fix NULL pointer dereference when parsing devicetree
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: pinctrl: canaan: k230: Fix NULL pointer dereference when parsing devicetree When probing the k230 pinctrl driver, the kernel triggers a NULL pointer dereference. The crash trace showed: [ 0.732084] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000068 [ 0.740737] ... [ 0.776296] epc : k230_pinctrl_probe+0x1be/0x4fc In k230_pinctrl_parse_functions(), we attempt to retrieve the device pointer via info->pctl_dev->dev, but info->pctl_dev is only initialized after k230_pinctrl_parse_dt() completes. At the time of DT parsing, info->pctl_dev is still NULL, leading to the invalid dereference of info->pctl_dev->dev. Use the already available device pointer from platform_device instead of accessing through uninitialized pctl_dev.
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: d94a32ac688f953dc9a9f12b5b4139ecad841bbb , < 3c7d637bfc3dfbd6471c68bd767f7eb8b5b09eba (git)
Affected: d94a32ac688f953dc9a9f12b5b4139ecad841bbb , < 1d0d361f4dbc2bb2003594f84e4b101fc6b508c0 (git)
Affected: d94a32ac688f953dc9a9f12b5b4139ecad841bbb , < d8c128fb6c2277d95f3f6a4ce28b82c8370031f6 (git)
Affected: 02c1deb1bff2b6d242e29a51e56107495979a2b8 (git)
Affected: 0ec03251d01494ef207089b5bd626becfd05fd86 (git)
Affected: 6.15.10 , < 6.16 (semver)
Affected: 6.16.1 , < 6.17 (semver)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.17
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.17 (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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