Boletines de Vulnerabilidades

CVE-2026-43122

   
Software afectado LINUX KERNEL
 
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ACPI: processor: Update cpuidle driver check in __acpi_processor_start()

Commit 7a8c994cbb2d ("ACPI: processor: idle: Optimize ACPI idle
driver registration") moved the ACPI idle driver registration to
acpi_processor_driver_init() and acpi_processor_power_init() does
not register an idle driver any more.

Accordingly, the cpuidle driver check in __acpi_processor_start() needs
to be updated to avoid calling acpi_processor_power_init() without a
cpuidle driver, in which case the registration of the cpuidle device
in that function would lead to a NULL pointer dereference in
__cpuidle_register_device().

Link:

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-43122