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CVE-2026-45877

Status: AnalyzedMedium (5.5)—

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

HID: intel-ish-hid: fix NULL-ptr-deref in ishtp_bus_remove_all_clients

During a warm reset flow, the cl->device pointer may be NULL if the reset occurs while clients are still being enumerated. Accessing cl->device->reference_count without a NULL check leads to a kernel panic.

This issue was identified during multi-unit warm reboot stress clycles. Add a defensive NULL check for cl->device to ensure stability under such intensive testing conditions.

Technical details traces, logs and code from the original report
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0000000000000000-0000000000000007]
Workqueue: ish_fw_update_wq fw_reset_work_fn

Call Trace:
 ishtp_bus_remove_all_clients+0xbe/0x130 [intel_ishtp]
 ishtp_reset_handler+0x85/0x1a0 [intel_ishtp]
 fw_reset_work_fn+0x8a/0xc0 [intel_ish_ipc]

CVSS

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

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Affected technologies (1)

Linux — Linux Kernel

CWEs

References

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