CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-64227

MediumCVSS 5.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.17%

6th percentile - higher than 6% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel, several ACPI platform drivers lack a NULL check for the ACPI companion object. Since any platform driver can be forced to match a non-ACPI device, this can lead to errors.

Risk Assessment

Use of an uninitialized ACPI pointer may cause a kernel panic or incorrect driver behavior.

Recommendation

Update the kernel to a version that includes the fix, which adds NULL checks for ACPI_COMPANION() or ACPI_HANDLE() in 13 drivers.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ACPI: driver: Check ACPI_COMPANION() against NULL during probe Since every platform driver can be forced to match a device that doesn't match its list of device IDs because of device_match_driver_override(), platform drivers that rely on the existence of a device's ACPI companion object should verify its presence. Accordingly, add requisite ACPI_COMPANION() or ACPI_HANDLE() checks against NULL to 13 platform drivers handling core ACPI devices. Also change the value returned by the ACPI thermal zone driver when the device's ACPI companion is not present to -ENODEV for consistency with the other drivers.

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