CVE-2026-100072
7.8, highLinux Use-After-Free Vulnerability
- CVSS
- 7.8, high high CVSS v3.1
- EPSS, next 30 days
- 0.1% higher than 1.7% of scored CVEs
- Exploitation
- No public evidence
- Published
- 25 Sept 202628 days ago
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ACPI: platform: Use acpi_bus_get_primary_device() The acpi_get_first_physical_node() usage in acpi_platform_fill_resource() and acpi_create_platform_device() is generally unsafe because in theory the device returned by it may be freed at any time [1]. It is also inefficient because acpi_get_first_physical_node() is called multiple times for the same argument which can be avoided. Address these issues by using acpi_bus_get_primary_device() instead of acpi_get_first_physical_node() and adjusting the code to call it just once at the beginning of and acpi_create_platform_device() and drop the device reference acquired by it upon the return from that function.
Details
- Vendor
- Linux
- Product
- Linux
- Weakness
- CWE-416 (opens in a new tab)
- Status
- Analyzed
- Updated
- 21 Oct 2026
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
References 4
Patches and fixes 4
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/527a497fb2ef77a95170eefe2007e2c4c957bd2c (opens in a new tab)
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/a75e5de593ef158feb17989bff7730c5a3d82503 (opens in a new tab)
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/a9ba4dd2f18bf3f439d9ef0d8f375f90360ba1bd (opens in a new tab)
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/c9d202d3b6c28e8c779cd2f2b10d2f7ab665ca71 (opens in a new tab)
The kind is read from NVD's tags where present and from the shape of the URL otherwise, so treat it as a hint.
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Assembled from the NVD 2.0 API, the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog and FIRST EPSS. Scores are as of our last collection on 23 Oct 2026, not the live upstream state.