CVE-2024-40933 Information

Description

In the Linux kernel the following vulnerability has been resolved:

iio: temperature: mlx90635: Fix ERR_PTR dereference in mlx90635_probe()

When devm_regmap_init_i2c() fails regmap_ee could be error pointer instead of checking for IS_ERR(regmap_ee) regmap is checked which looks like a copy paste error.

Reference

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5a5595ae8cc7cdaa1a10b56a26ddbe3429245c6c https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a23c14b062d8800a2192077d83273bbfe6c7552d