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CVE-2021-47289

Published: 2024-05-21T15:15Z
Last Modified: 2024-12-23T16:46Z
Source: MITRE CVE List
License: MITRE-CVE-TOS
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. > MITRE Terms of Use apply – see LICENSE‑MITRE.txt