{"id":"CVE-2026-45874","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-45874","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T01:49:04.399Z","title":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: phy: freescale: imx8qm-hsio: fix NULL pointer dereference During the probe the refclk_pad pointer is set to NULL if the 'fsl,refclk-pad-mode' property is not defined in the devicetree…","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nphy: freescale: imx8qm-hsio: fix NULL pointer dereference\n\nDuring the probe the refclk_pad pointer is set to NULL if the\n'fsl,refclk-pad-mode' property is not defined in the devicetree node. But\nin imx_hsio_configure_clk_pad() this pointer is unconditionally used which\ncould result in a NULL pointer dereference. So check the pointer before to\nuse it.","published":"2026-05-27T14:17:01.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-25T21:05:35.000Z","status":"Analyzed","sourceIdentifier":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":5.5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-476"],"affected":["linux/linux kernel"],"epss":{"score":0.00156,"percentile":0.04654,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.16%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4dd5d4c0361af0a3fd24f45c815996abf4429770","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8d29e81e9cdec84d4b9acb1736550d35e86c88af","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a771b386cb6c6e582e7b50f8eeff3347ff887f71","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dd8b9ba3d9701832cfb5dcefd8b43250df28dbc2","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-45874","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}