CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-50327
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2025-09-15
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
Description
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().
[ rjw: Subject and changelog edits, added empty line after if () ]
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.8 < 5.4.297)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.241)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.190)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.0.16)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.1 < 6.1.2)
• debian debian linux 11.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2437513a814b3e93bd02879740a8a06e52e2cf7d Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2ecd629c788bbfb96be058edade2e934d3763eaf Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8e8b5f12ee4ab6f5d252c9ca062a4ada9554e6d9 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ad1190744da9d812da55b76f2afce750afb0a3bd Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b85f0e292f73f353eea915499604fbf50c8238b4 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fdee7a0acc566c4194d40a501b8a1584e86cc208 Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00007.html Third Party Advisory