CVE-2026-72432 (GCVE-0-2026-72432)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-15 05:56 – Updated: 2026-08-17 05:14
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Title
tpm_crb: Check ACPI_COMPANION() against NULL during probe
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tpm_crb: Check ACPI_COMPANION() against NULL during probe 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(), so platform drivers that rely on the existence of a device's ACPI companion object need to verify its presence. Accordingly, add a requisite ACPI_COMPANION() check against NULL to the tpm_crb driver.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
Assigner
Linux CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 6992 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 48fe2cddc85c7849463bd01ae8b8c6b575ff508b , < c041d2be785feb9b5e36331921eadaefbe65349d (git)
Affected: 48fe2cddc85c7849463bd01ae8b8c6b575ff508b , < ddd33806b8911fa2ef849e8bbbab1e3fcb26adc0 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 7.1
Unaffected: 0 , < 7.1 (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1.5 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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