{"id":79255,"date":"2026-06-03T21:46:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T18:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-46269-pinctrl-canaan-k230-fix-null-pointer-dereference-when-parsing-devicetree\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T21:46:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T18:16:28","slug":"cve-2026-46269-pinctrl-canaan-k230-fix-null-pointer-dereference-when-parsing-devicetree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-46269-pinctrl-canaan-k230-fix-null-pointer-dereference-when-parsing-devicetree\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2026-46269 &#8211; pinctrl: canaan: k230: Fix NULL pointer dereference when parsing devicetree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID :CVE-2026-46269<\/p>\n<p>  Published : June 3, 2026, 6:16 p.m. | 16\u00a0minutes ago<\/p>\n<p>  Description :In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<\/p>\n<p>pinctrl: canaan: k230: Fix NULL pointer dereference when parsing devicetree<\/p>\n<p>When probing the k230 pinctrl driver, the kernel triggers a NULL pointer<br \/>\ndereference. The crash trace showed:<br \/>\n[    0.732084] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000068<br \/>\n[    0.740737] &#8230;<br \/>\n[    0.776296] epc : k230_pinctrl_probe+0x1be\/0x4fc<\/p>\n<p>In k230_pinctrl_parse_functions(), we attempt to retrieve the device<br \/>\npointer via info-&gt;pctl_dev-&gt;dev, but info-&gt;pctl_dev is only initialized<br \/>\nafter k230_pinctrl_parse_dt() completes.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of DT parsing, info-&gt;pctl_dev is still NULL, leading to<br \/>\nthe invalid dereference of info-&gt;pctl_dev-&gt;dev.<\/p>\n<p>Use the already available device pointer from platform_device<br \/>\ninstead of accessing through uninitialized pctl_dev.<\/p>\n<p>  Severity: 0.0 | NA<\/p>\n<p>  Visit the link for more details, such as CVSS details, affected products, timeline, and more&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID :CVE-2026-46269 Published : June 3, 2026, 6:16 p.m. | 16\u00a0minutes ago Description :In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: pinctrl: canaan: k230: Fix NULL pointer dereference when parsing devicetree When probing the k230 pinctrl driver, the kernel triggers a NULL pointer dereference. The crash trace showed: [ 0.732084] Unable to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}