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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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