CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-64510
7.0 HIGH
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- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-07-25
- Last modified
- 2026-10-19
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 7.0 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-416
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ACPI: NFIT: core: Fix acpi_nfit_init() error cleanup
If acpi_nfit_init() fails after adding the acpi_desc object to the
acpi_descs list, that object is never removed from that list because
the acpi_nfit_shutdown() devm action is not added for the NFIT device
in that case. Next, the acpi_nfit_init() failure causes
acpi_nfit_probe() to fail, the acpi_desc object is freed, and a
dangling pointer is left behind in the acpi_descs. Any subsequent
ACPI Machine Check Exception will trigger nfit_handle_mce() which
iterates over acpi_descs and so a use-after-free will occur.
Moreover, if acpi_nfit_probe() returns 0 after installing a notify
handler for the NFIT device and without allocating the acpi_desc
object and setting the NFIT device's driver data pointer, the
acpi_desc object will be allocated by acpi_nfit_update_notify()
and acpi_nfit_init() will be called to initialize it. Regardless
of whether or not acpi_nfit_init() fails in that case, the
acpi_nfit_shutdown() devm action is not added for the NFIT device
and acpi_desc is never removed from the acpi_descs list. If the
acpi_desc object is freed subsequently on driver removal, any
subsequent ACPI MCE will lead to a use-after-free like in the
previous case.
To address the first issue mentioned above, make acpi_nfit_probe()
call acpi_nfit_shutdown() directly on acpi_nfit_init() failures and
to address the other one, add a remove callback to the driver and
make it call acpi_nfit_shutdown(). Also, since it is now possible to
pass NULL to acpi_nfit_shutdown() or the acpi_desc object passed to it
may not have been initialized, add checks against NULL for acpi_desc and
its nvdimm_bus field to that function and make acpi_nfit_unregister()
clear the latter after unregistering the NVDIMM bus.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-416 Use After Free weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/38bf27511ef41bffebd157ec3eba41fc89ba59cd git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3b2628f7682aea8d9ce09ad4b9a3bd144b451eaa git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6ff054cc02a763914773b026cacb429e5fbf64fa git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7d69235bdc581a4346e9bcd6a8bea37d3e1abd25 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b07d22a2d17ad6465c87bd5752bc70e4c16e0ee4 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c127dbd832bd4b9aef8a749d9f491b74042f9b47 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/df7c92216a1583a76cb0cbf2f21cd68870609b05 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ee82078e776ae31266cc70fdf62ac17c3c6f100a git.kernel.org