Threats tagged 'ghsa-hqv9-j885-c7xr'

A NULL pointer dereference vulnerability in the Linux kernel's ACPICA component was resolved. The function acpi_ns_custom_package() dereferenced the first element of a package without checking for NULL, leading to a potential crash when firmware returns an unresolvable reference. The fix adds a NULL check to prevent this crash and returns an error code instead.