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Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Feb 28, 2024· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2021-46994

CVE-2021-46994

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

can: mcp251x: fix resume from sleep before interface was brought up

Since 8ce8c0abcba3 the driver queues work via priv->restart_work when resuming after suspend, even when the interface was not previously enabled. This causes a null dereference error as the workqueue is only allocated and initialized in mcp251x_open().

To fix this we move the workqueue init to mcp251x_can_probe() as there is no reason to do it later and repeat it whenever mcp251x_open() is called.

[mkl: fix error handling in mcp251x_stop()]

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  • Linux/Kernelllm-fuzzy3 versions
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    • (no CPE)
    • (no CPE)range: 5.5
    • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: >=5.5,<5.10.38

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