CVE-2026-31544: Linux Kernel

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: firmware: arm_scmi: Fix NULL dereference on notify error path Since commit b5daf93b809d1 ("firmware: arm_scmi: Avoid notifier registration for unsupported events") the call chains leading to the helper __scmi_event_handler_get_ops expect an ERR_PTR to be returned on failure to get an handler for the requested event key, while the current helper can still return a NULL when no handler could be found or created. Fix by forcing an ERR_PTR return value when the handler reference is NULL.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 6.17, before 6.18.20 (fixed in 6.18.20); from 6.19, before 6.19.10 (fixed in 6.19.10); version 7.0 only

Published 2026-04-24. Last modified 2026-06-17.