Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Sep 18, 2024· Updated May 4, 2025
hwmon: (hp-wmi-sensors) Check if WMI event data exists
CVE-2024-46768
Description
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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