CVSS 3.1
5.5 mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCVE-2021-47289
Medium (5.5) in linux linux kernel. EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ACPI: fix NULL pointer dereference
Commit 71f642833284 ("ACPI: utils: Fix reference counting in
for_each_acpi_dev_match()") started doing "acpi_dev_put()" on a pointer
that was possibly NULL. That fails miserably, because that helper
inline function is not set up to handle that case.
Just make acpi_dev_put() silently accept a NULL pointer, rather than
calling down to put_device() with an invalid offset off that NULL
pointer.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 14% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-476
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- linux:linux_kernel
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/38f54217b423c0101d03a00feec6fb8ec608b12e
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cae3fa3d8165761f3000f523b11cfa1cd35206bc
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ccf23a0888077a25a0793a746c3941db2a7562e4
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fc68f42aa737dc15e7665a4101d4168aadb8e4c4
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/38f54217b423c0101d03a00feec6fb8ec608b12e