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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2021-46994"
idYear: 2021
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-02-28T08:13:19.115Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T13:45:54.034Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:56:36.661Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2021-46994"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2021-46994.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-46994"
title: "can: mcp251x: fix resume from sleep before interface was brought up"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ncan: mcp251x: fix resume from sleep before interface was brought up\n\nSince 8ce8c0abcba3 the driver queues work via priv-\u003erestart_work when\nresuming after suspend, even when the interface was not previously\nenabled. This causes a null dereference error as the workqueue is only\nallocated and initialized in mcp251x_open().\n\nTo fix this we move the workqueue init to mcp251x_can_probe() as there\nis no reason to do it later and repeat it whenever mcp251x_open() is\ncalled.\n\n[mkl: fix error handling in mcp251x_stop()]"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"8ce8c0abcba314e1fe954a1840f6568bf5aef2ef","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"eecb4df8ec9f896b19ee05bfa632ac6c1dcd8f21"},{"version":"8ce8c0abcba314e1fe954a1840f6568bf5aef2ef","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6f8f1c27b577de15f69fefce3c502bb6300d825c"},{"version":"8ce8c0abcba314e1fe954a1840f6568bf5aef2ef","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e1e10a390fd9479209c4d834d916ca5e6d5d396b"},{"version":"8ce8c0abcba314e1fe954a1840f6568bf5aef2ef","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"03c427147b2d3e503af258711af4fc792b89b0af"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.5","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.5"},{"version":"5.10.38","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.11.22","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.11.*"},{"version":"5.12.5","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.12.*"},{"version":"5.13","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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