CVE-2022-50433

efi: ssdt: Don't free memory if ACPI table was loaded successfully

published October 1, 2025

CVSS
—
EPSS
0%
Percentile
4.5
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

efi: ssdt: Don't free memory if ACPI table was loaded successfully

Amadeusz reports KASAN use-after-free errors introduced by commit

3881ee0b1edc ("efi: avoid efivars layer when loading SSDTs from

variables"). The problem appears to be that the memory that holds the

new ACPI table is now freed unconditionally, instead of only when the

ACPI core reported a failure to load the table.

So let's fix this, by omitting the kfree() on success.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00157 · 4.5th percentile
Published
2025-10-01T11:42Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 01 OCT 11:42Z
    efi: ssdt: Don't free memory if ACPI table was loaded successfully
    cvelistv5