CVE-2021-47079 (GCVE-0-2021-47079)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-03-01 21:15 – Updated: 2026-05-11 13:47
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Title
platform/x86: ideapad-laptop: fix a NULL pointer dereference
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: platform/x86: ideapad-laptop: fix a NULL pointer dereference The third parameter of dytc_cql_command should not be NULL since it will be dereferenced immediately.
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Linux Linux Affected: ff36b0d953dc4cbc40a72945920ff8e805f1b0da , < beab753fe3b4e087411a850a64c6cd748544d8a1 (git)
Affected: ff36b0d953dc4cbc40a72945920ff8e805f1b0da , < ff67dbd554b2aaa22be933eced32610ff90209dd (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.12
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.12 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.12.7 , ≤ 5.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.13 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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