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Score 7.1 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2024-10-21. NVD baseline CVSS 7.1; sources differ by 0.0.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ACPI: sysfs: validate return type of _STR method
Only buffer objects are valid return values of _STR.
If something else is returned description_show() will access invalid memory.
October 21, 2024
November 3, 2025
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ACPI: sysfs: validate return type of _STR method
RHSA-2025:6966 — Moderate
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