CVEvulnerability

CVE-2025-71118

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2026-01-14 Modified 2026-10-19 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2026-01-14
Last modified
2026-10-19
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: ACPICA: Avoid walking the Namespace if start_node is NULL Although commit 0c9992315e73 ("ACPICA: Avoid walking the ACPI Namespace if it is not there") fixed the situation when both start_node and acpi_gbl_root_node are NULL, the Linux kernel mainline now still crashed on Honor Magicbook 14 Pro [1]. That happens due to the access to the member of parent_node in acpi_ns_get_next_node(). The NULL pointer dereference will always happen, no matter whether or not the start_node is equal to ACPI_ROOT_OBJECT, so move the check of start_node being NULL out of the if block. Unfortunately, all the attempts to contact Honor have failed, they refused to provide any technical support for Linux. The bad DSDT table's dump could be found on GitHub [2]. DMI: HONOR FMB-P/FMB-P-PCB, BIOS 1.13 05/08/2025 [ rjw: Subject adjustment, changelog edits ]

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 2.6.12.1 < 5.10.248) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.198) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.160) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.120) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.64) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.18.3) • linux linux kernel 2.6.12 • linux linux kernel 6.19

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness

References