CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-68444
- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-08-12
- Last modified
- 2026-08-19
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
firmware: arm_ffa: Fix NULL dereference in ffa_partition_info_get()
ffa_partition_info_get() passes uuid_str directly to uuid_parse()
without a NULL check. When a caller passes NULL, uuid_parse() ->
__uuid_parse() -> uuid_is_valid() dereferences the pointer, causing
a kernel panic:
| Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address
| 0000000000000040
| pc : uuid_parse+0x40/0xac
| lr : ffa_partition_info_get+0x1c/0x94 [arm_ffa]
Add a NULL guard before uuid_parse() so a NULL argument returns
-ENODEV instead of crashing. Callers are expected to always supply
a valid partition UUID, so NULL is not a supported input.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/12a42c610e4432e7708cc48d607e5903fffe0aad git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7201e56e52d18abf4cd0a2fee45daf9dc08b5b97 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7dfb020e3048411fbca91e9ad6174da9a2d3e2b3 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/86f5ea90f73bb7154593bb96f3411e197f3d4fbe git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8ae5f8e4836667fcaffdf2e3c6068b0a8b364dd8 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/996c5c19d5b5ac5b98a7b5a406b548305841c301 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ddf85f0c32e05baafbd9c3a44859858db90eec48 git.kernel.org