CVE-2026-64227CWE-476

CVE-2026-64227

Medium · published July 24, 2026

CVSS v3.1
5.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
5.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

ACPI: driver: Check ACPI_COMPANION() against NULL during probe

Since every platform driver can be forced to match a device that doesn't

match its list of device IDs because of device_match_driver_override(),

platform drivers that rely on the existence of a device's ACPI companion

object should verify its presence.

Accordingly, add requisite ACPI_COMPANION() or ACPI_HANDLE() checks

against NULL to 13 platform drivers handling core ACPI devices.

Also change the value returned by the ACPI thermal zone driver when

the device's ACPI companion is not present to -ENODEV for consistency

with the other drivers.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00162 · 5.0th percentile
Weakness
CWE-476 · NULL Pointer Dereference
Published
2026-07-24T20:16Z
Affected products (6)
ProductVersionsFixed in
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.7, < 6.12.976.12.97
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.13, < 6.18.406.18.40
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.19, < 7.0.117.0.11
linux/linux_kernelall versions—
linux/linux_kernelall versions—
linux/linux_kernelall versions—
References (4)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 24 JUL 15:23Z
    ACPI: driver: Check ACPI_COMPANION() against NULL during probe
    cvelistv5