CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-80605

Low risk· EPSS 7%
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.18%

7th percentile - higher than 7% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the HID picolcd driver had a potential NULL pointer dereference in picolcd_send_and_wait() due to an integer overflow of the signed loop counter. Changing the counter type to unsigned int prevents the overflow and eliminates the out-of-bounds access.

Risk Assessment

This could lead to system crashes or malfunction of the driver, especially during long-running operations.

Recommendation

Install the updated Linux kernel with the fix to eliminate the NULL dereference risk in the picolcd driver.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: HID: picolcd: prevent NULL pointer dereference in picolcd_send_and_wait() In picolcd_send_and_wait(), an integer overflow of the signed loop counter 'k' can theoretically lead to a NULL pointer dereference of 'raw_data'. If the loop executes more than INT_MAX times, 'k' becomes negative, making the condition 'k < size' true even when 'size' is 0. Change the type of 'k' to 'unsigned int' to prevent the overflow and eliminate the out-of-bounds access. Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with the Svace static analysis tool. [[email protected]: extended hash length]

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