The vulnerability of the acpi_ns_walk_namespace() function in the drivers/acpi/acpica/nswalk.c driver for the ACPI driver (an extended configuration and power management interface) in the Linux kernel allows a malicious actor to cause a service failure.

The vulnerability of the acpinswalknamespace function in the drivers/acpi/acpica/nswalk.c driver of the ACPI driver an extended configuration and power management interface of the Linux kernel is related to pointer manipulation. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow an attacker to cause a...

ACPICA: Avoid walking the Namespace if start_node is NULL

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CVE-2025-71118

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ACPICA: Avoid walking the Namespace if startnode is NULL Although commit 0c9992315e73 "ACPICA: Avoid walking the ACPI Namespace if it is not there" fixed the situation when both startnode and acpigblrootnode are NULL, the Linux...

CVE-2025-71118

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ACPICA: Avoid walking the Namespace if startnode is NULL Although commit 0c9992315e73 "ACPICA: Avoid walking the ACPI Namespace if it is not there" fixed the situation when both startnode and acpigblrootnode are NULL, the Linux...

CVE-2025-71118 ACPICA: Avoid walking the Namespace if start_node is NULL

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ACPICA: Avoid walking the Namespace if startnode is NULL Although commit 0c9992315e73 "ACPICA: Avoid walking the ACPI Namespace if it is not there" fixed the situation when both startnode and acpigblrootnode are NULL, the Linux...

CVE-2025-71118

CVE-2025-71118 : The connected documents confirm a Linux kernel/ACPICA issue where walking the ACPI Namespace with a NULL start_node could dereference a NULL pointer in acpi_ns_get_next_node. The root cause is an access to a member of parent_node when start_node is NULL, which could crash the sys...

CVE-2025-71118 ACPICA: Avoid walking the Namespace if start_node is NULL

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ACPICA: Avoid walking the Namespace if startnode is NULL Although commit 0c9992315e73 "ACPICA: Avoid walking the ACPI Namespace if it is not there" fixed the situation when both startnode and acpigblrootnode are NULL, the Linux...