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CVE-2022-50327 (GCVE-0-2022-50327)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-09-15 14:49 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:17
VLAI
Title
ACPI: processor: idle: Check acpi_fetch_acpi_dev() return value
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ACPI: processor: idle: Check acpi_fetch_acpi_dev() return value The return value of acpi_fetch_acpi_dev() could be NULL, which would cause a NULL pointer dereference to occur in acpi_device_hid(). [ rjw: Subject and changelog edits, added empty line after if () ]
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: a36a7fecfe6071732075ad5aa31196adce13181b , < 8e8b5f12ee4ab6f5d252c9ca062a4ada9554e6d9 (git)
Affected: a36a7fecfe6071732075ad5aa31196adce13181b , < fdee7a0acc566c4194d40a501b8a1584e86cc208 (git)
Affected: a36a7fecfe6071732075ad5aa31196adce13181b , < ad1190744da9d812da55b76f2afce750afb0a3bd (git)
Affected: a36a7fecfe6071732075ad5aa31196adce13181b , < 2ecd629c788bbfb96be058edade2e934d3763eaf (git)
Affected: a36a7fecfe6071732075ad5aa31196adce13181b , < b85f0e292f73f353eea915499604fbf50c8238b4 (git)
Affected: a36a7fecfe6071732075ad5aa31196adce13181b , < 2437513a814b3e93bd02879740a8a06e52e2cf7d (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 4.8
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.8 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4.297 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.241 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.190 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.0.16 , ≤ 6.0.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.2 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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