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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Apr 3, 2024· Updated May 4, 2025

usb: core: Prevent null pointer dereference in update_port_device_state

CVE-2024-26716

Description

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

usb: core: Prevent null pointer dereference in update_port_device_state

Currently, the function update_port_device_state gets the usb_hub from udev->parent by calling usb_hub_to_struct_hub. However, in case the actconfig or the maxchild is 0, the usb_hub would be NULL and upon further accessing to get port_dev would result in null pointer dereference.

Fix this by introducing an if check after the usb_hub is populated.

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