CVE-2021-47289
MEDIUMLinux Kernel - NULL Pointer Dereference in ACPI Device Reference Counting
Title source: llmDescription
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.
References (4)
Core 4
Core References
Scores
CVSS v3
5.5
EPSS
0.0024
EPSS Percentile
14.4%
Attack Vector
LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical Impact
partial
Details
CWE
CWE-476
Status
published
Products (12)
Linux/Linux
< 5.2
Linux/Linux
5.10.57 - 5.10.*
Linux/Linux
5.13.6 - 5.13.*
Linux/Linux
5.14
Linux/Linux
5.2
Linux/Linux
5.4.139 - 5.4.*
Linux/Linux
fe066621c7966fe47fa17c6be6fd81adb3c0509f - 38f54217b423c0101d03a00feec6fb8ec608b12e
Linux/Linux
fe066621c7966fe47fa17c6be6fd81adb3c0509f - cae3fa3d8165761f3000f523b11cfa1cd35206bc
Linux/Linux
fe066621c7966fe47fa17c6be6fd81adb3c0509f - ccf23a0888077a25a0793a746c3941db2a7562e4
Linux/Linux
fe066621c7966fe47fa17c6be6fd81adb3c0509f - fc68f42aa737dc15e7665a4101d4168aadb8e4c4
... and 2 more
Published
May 21, 2024
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026