CVE-2022-50327: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ACPI: processor: idle: Check acpi_fetch_acpi_dev() return value The return value of acpi_fetch_acpi_dev() could be NULL, which would cause a NULL pointer dereference to occur in acpi_device_hid(). [ rjw: Subject and changelog edits, added empty line after if () ]

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 11.0 only
• Linux Linux Kernel: from 4.8, before 5.4.297 (fixed in 5.4.297); from 5.5, before 5.10.241 (fixed in 5.10.241); from 5.11, before 5.15.190 (fixed in 5.15.190); from 5.16, before 6.0.16 (fixed in 6.0.16); from 6.1, before 6.1.2 (fixed in 6.1.2)

Published 2025-09-15. Last modified 2026-06-17.