Overview
About vulnerability
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ACPI: processor: idle: Check acpi_fetch_acpi_dev() return value
The return value of acpi_fetch_acpi_dev() could be NULL, which would cause a NULL pointer dereference to occur in acpi_device_hid().
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Details
- Affected product:
- AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU , CentOS 8.4 ELS , CentOS 8.5 ELS , Ubuntu 16.04 ELS , Ubuntu 20.04 ELS
- Affected packages:
- linux-hwe @ 4.15.0 (+4 more)
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ACPI: processor: idle: Check acpi_fetch_acpi_dev() return value
The return value of acpi_fetch_acpi_dev() could be NULL, which would cause a NULL pointer dereference to occur in acpi_device_hid().
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