CVE-2025-71118 Affecting kernel-docs-html package, versions <6.12.0-160000.26.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (16th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES1600-KERNELDOCSHTML-15433715
  • published6 Mar 2026
  • disclosed27 Feb 2026

Introduced: 27 Feb 2026

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How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:16.0.0 kernel-docs-html to version 6.12.0-160000.26.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-docs-html package and not the kernel-docs-html package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:16.0.0 relevant fixed versions and status.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ACPICA: Avoid walking the Namespace if start_node is NULL

Although commit 0c9992315e73 ("ACPICA: Avoid walking the ACPI Namespace if it is not there") fixed the situation when both start_node and acpi_gbl_root_node are NULL, the Linux kernel mainline now still crashed on Honor Magicbook 14 Pro [1].

That happens due to the access to the member of parent_node in acpi_ns_get_next_node(). The NULL pointer dereference will always happen, no matter whether or not the start_node is equal to ACPI_ROOT_OBJECT, so move the check of start_node being NULL out of the if block.

Unfortunately, all the attempts to contact Honor have failed, they refused to provide any technical support for Linux.

The bad DSDT table's dump could be found on GitHub [2].

DMI: HONOR FMB-P/FMB-P-PCB, BIOS 1.13 05/08/2025

[ rjw: Subject adjustment, changelog edits ]

CVSS Base Scores

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