# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2024-26978"
idYear: 2024
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-05-01T05:20:33.457Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-23T15:40:48.743Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:07.518Z"
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-2024-26978"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-26978.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-26978"
title: "serial: max310x: fix NULL pointer dereference in I2C instantiation"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nserial: max310x: fix NULL pointer dereference in I2C instantiation\n\nWhen trying to instantiate a max14830 device from userspace:\n\n    echo max14830 0x60 \u003e /sys/bus/i2c/devices/i2c-2/new_device\n\nwe get the following error:\n\n    Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address...\n    ...\n    Call trace:\n        max310x_i2c_probe+0x48/0x170 [max310x]\n        i2c_device_probe+0x150/0x2a0\n    ...\n\nAdd check for validity of devtype to prevent the error, and abort probe\nwith a meaningful error message."
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