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CVE-2021-46994

MEDIUM · CVSS 5.5 EPSS 0.24%

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2024-02-28 · Last synced 2026-08-04

CyberRota Analysis

This is a medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 5.5. It affects Linux.

CVE
CVE-2021-46994
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
5.5
EPSS
0.24%
Linux

Original NVD Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: can: mcp251x: fix resume from sleep before interface was brought up Since 8ce8c0abcba3 the driver queues work via priv->restart_work when resuming after suspend, even when the interface was not previously enabled. This causes a null dereference error as the workqueue is only allocated and initialized in mcp251x_open(). To fix this we move the workqueue init to mcp251x_can_probe() as there is no reason to do it later and repeat it whenever mcp251x_open() is called. [mkl: fix error handling in mcp251x_stop()]

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