platform/surface: acpi-notify: Check ACPI companion before use
Key facts
- Attack vector
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- Privileges required
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- User interaction
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- Attack complexity
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- Impact type
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- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
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- Fix status
- Fixed
No CVSS vector from any source. Fix status from CNA.
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: platform/surface: acpi-notify: Check ACPI companion before use 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. san_probe() dereferences the result of ACPI_COMPANION() when installing the GSBUS address space handler, so force-binding the driver to a device without an ACPI companion leads to a NULL pointer dereference. The dereference was introduced when the probe function was switched from ACPI_HANDLE() to ACPI_COMPANION(). Check the ACPI companion against NULL and return -ENODEV when it is missing, like commit e4865a56d013 ("ACPI: driver: Check ACPI_COMPANION() against NULL during probe") does for the core ACPI platform drivers.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.
Affected products
Remediation
- Fix · CNA Linux (Linux) Fixed in 5.15.221, 6.1.188, 6.6.157, 6.12.110, 6.18.52, 7.2.6, 7.3
Vendor assessments
Red Hat
Red Hat rating: Moderate. Red Hat's page for this CVE →
Not affected: 7 products
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
- Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4
- Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 5
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-93114
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-fmfr-wc4p-75cj
- 2026-10-19 Fix available: Linux/[email protected] · CNA
- 2026-10-20 Affected versions changed · Red Hat
- 2026-10-20 CVSS score added · Red Hat
- 2026-11-06 Affected versions changed · Red Hat
References
Other 7
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4faa43d4ef0b98beb6c2b77a279f4aa5d7fa2d13
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3855be0100efb98c26228c610db70a673611f3bd
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f276b62f2ce1cbff7fa50a8ee5afd8fef5a60897
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9b6479da662c2ec4e931ed9f7228df46aa8c3766
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7fea5a310e3b2db24f7aafe64897e4e659ffbb7d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/428a82d987fcd8844e8868c85582eae75b4b5c51
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2b3a5dabe89e330413af403246b648c1890f368f
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Sources
- CVE-2026-93114 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-93114 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-fmfr-wc4p-75cj · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2026-93114 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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