CVE-2026-45978 PUBLISHED

staging: greybus: lights: avoid NULL deref

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 13.05.2026 Published: 27.05.2026 Updated: 27.05.2026

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

staging: greybus: lights: avoid NULL deref

gb_lights_light_config() stores channel_count before allocating the channels array. If kcalloc() fails, gb_lights_release() iterates the non-zero count and dereferences light->channels, which is NULL.

Allocate channels first and only then publish channels_count so the cleanup path can't walk a NULL pointer.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 2870b52bae4c81823ffcb3ed2b0626fb39d64f48 to a118724d7641b832fa14323e2733e28ae4834552 (excl.)
  • affected from 2870b52bae4c81823ffcb3ed2b0626fb39d64f48 to 3cbe694d235d96f628ec7dc6ae4d8bdddb768699 (excl.)
  • affected from 2870b52bae4c81823ffcb3ed2b0626fb39d64f48 to ba5022162da63059bae36c4fd84d7031f582c71f (excl.)
  • affected from 2870b52bae4c81823ffcb3ed2b0626fb39d64f48 to 65f2c608096d766540953d9b170d216aa3b5eb95 (excl.)
  • affected from 2870b52bae4c81823ffcb3ed2b0626fb39d64f48 to 01b91cb3e748032fd96bbe0043812b426a52f091 (excl.)
  • affected from 2870b52bae4c81823ffcb3ed2b0626fb39d64f48 to 06162d85f830582da6e9e5fcf9c9504d6da9ae0b (excl.)
  • affected from 2870b52bae4c81823ffcb3ed2b0626fb39d64f48 to da46264a7016034a5bbbad034c012ef218b7d0af (excl.)
  • affected from 2870b52bae4c81823ffcb3ed2b0626fb39d64f48 to efcffd9a6ad8d190651498d5eda53bfc7cf683a7 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 4.9 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 4.9 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 5.10.252 to 5.10.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 5.15.202 to 5.15.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.1.165 to 6.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.128 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.75 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.14 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.19.4 to 6.19.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.0 to * (incl.)

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