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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2021-47385"
idYear: 2021
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-05-21T15:03:45.615Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T13:53:40.149Z"
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-2021-47385"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2021-47385.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-47385"
title: "hwmon: (w83792d) Fix NULL pointer dereference by removing unnecessary structure field"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nhwmon: (w83792d) Fix NULL pointer dereference by removing unnecessary structure field\n\nIf driver read val value sufficient for\n(val & 0x08) && (!(val & 0x80)) && ((val & 0x7) == ((val \u003e\u003e 4) & 0x7))\nfrom device then Null pointer dereference occurs.\n(It is possible if tmp = 0b0xyz1xyz, where same literals mean same numbers)\nAlso lm75[] does not serve a purpose anymore after switching to\ndevm_i2c_new_dummy_device() in w83791d_detect_subclients().\n\nThe patch fixes possible NULL pointer dereference by removing lm75[].\n\nFound by Linux Driver Verification project (linuxtesting.org).\n\n[groeck: Dropped unnecessary continuation lines, fixed multipline alignment]"
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