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CVE-2021-46966

HIGH CVSS: 7.8 Published: 2024-02-27 Modified: 2026-06-17

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ACPI: custom_method: fix potential use-after-free issue In cm_write(), buf is always freed when reaching the end of the function. If the requested count is less than table.length, the allocated buffer will be freed but subsequent calls to cm_write() will still try to access it. Remove the unconditional kfree(buf) at the end of the function and set the buf to NULL in the -EINVAL error path to match the rest of function.

Affected Platforms

Linux Linux Kernel

Weakness Type

CWE-416

References