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Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Jun 3, 2026· Updated Jun 9, 2026

CVE-2026-46269

CVE-2026-46269

Description

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.

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Affected products

3
  • Linux/Kernel2 versions
    cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
    • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: >=6.15.10,<6.16
    • (no CPE)
  • osv-coords
    Range: >= 6.17.0, < 6.18.14

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