# 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-2024-36893"
idYear: 2024
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-05-30T15:28:59.113Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-23T15:47:17.169Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:11.582Z"
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-2024-36893"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-36893.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-36893"
title: "usb: typec: tcpm: Check for port partner validity before consuming it"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nusb: typec: tcpm: Check for port partner validity before consuming it\n\ntypec_register_partner() does not guarantee partner registration\nto always succeed. In the event of failure, port-\u003epartner is set\nto the error value or NULL. Given that port-\u003epartner validity is\nnot checked, this results in the following crash:\n\nUnable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address xx\n pc : run_state_machine+0x1bc8/0x1c08\n lr : run_state_machine+0x1b90/0x1c08\n..\n Call trace:\n   run_state_machine+0x1bc8/0x1c08\n   tcpm_state_machine_work+0x94/0xe4\n   kthread_worker_fn+0x118/0x328\n   kthread+0x1d0/0x23c\n   ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20\n\nTo prevent the crash, check for port-\u003epartner validity before\nderefencing it in all the call sites."
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