CVE-2021-47289

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel - NULL Pointer Dereference in ACPI Device Reference Counting

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

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.

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