CVE Catalog

CVE-2024-26730

HighCVSS 7.3
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.25%

16th percentile - higher than 16% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the nct6775 hwmon driver has an issue with accessing temperature configuration registers. The number of temperature configuration registers does not always match the total number of temperature registers, which can lead to access errors reported by KASAN (global-out-of-bounds).

Risk Assessment

The vulnerability may cause system crashes or incorrect temperature monitoring, potentially leading to hardware overheating in extreme cases.

Recommendation

Apply the Linux kernel update containing the fix for CVE-2024-26730.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: hwmon: (nct6775) Fix access to temperature configuration registers The number of temperature configuration registers does not always match the total number of temperature registers. This can result in access errors reported if KASAN is enabled. BUG: KASAN: global-out-of-bounds in nct6775_probe+0x5654/0x6fe9 nct6775_core

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