CVE-2026-45978

high

Description

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.

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/efcffd9a6ad8d190651498d5eda53bfc7cf683a7

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/da46264a7016034a5bbbad034c012ef218b7d0af

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ba5022162da63059bae36c4fd84d7031f582c71f

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a118724d7641b832fa14323e2733e28ae4834552

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/65f2c608096d766540953d9b170d216aa3b5eb95

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3cbe694d235d96f628ec7dc6ae4d8bdddb768699

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/06162d85f830582da6e9e5fcf9c9504d6da9ae0b

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/01b91cb3e748032fd96bbe0043812b426a52f091

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-05-27

Updated: 2026-05-27

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 10

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: Critical

CVSS v3

Base Score: 8.4

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00024