{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-71118 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2025-71118 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 14 Jan 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2025-71118 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2025-71118 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 14 Jan 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-71118 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Linux kernel. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-71118/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-71118/index.md)","id":"CVE-2025-71118","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-71118/index.md","name":"CVE-2025-71118","record":{"aliases":["AZL-74562","BELL-CVE-2025-71118","DEBIAN-CVE-2025-71118","GHSA-ff5f-2mh8-cffp","ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2204-CVE-2025-71118","ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2404-CVE-2025-71118","UBUNTU-CVE-2025-71118"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"A null pointer dereference in the Linux kernel ACPICA namespace walker causes a system crash when processing specific ACPI tables.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"null_dereference"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[{"product":"linux_kernel","vendor":"linux"}],"cvss":{"score":5.5,"severity":"medium","source":"nvd","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-476","name":"NULL Pointer Dereference"}],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nACPICA: Avoid walking the Namespace if start_node is NULL\n\nAlthough commit 0c9992315e73 (\"ACPICA: Avoid walking the ACPI Namespace\nif it is not there\") fixed the situation when both start_node and\nacpi_gbl_root_node are NULL, the Linux kernel mainline now still crashed\non Honor Magicbook 14 Pro [1].\n\nThat happens due to the access to the member of parent_node in\nacpi_ns_get_next_node().  The NULL pointer dereference will always\nhappen, no matter whether or not the start_node is equal to\nACPI_ROOT_OBJECT, so move the check of start_node being NULL\nout of the if block.\n\nUnfortunately, all the attempts to contact Honor have failed, they\nrefused to provide any technical support for Linux.\n\nThe bad DSDT table's dump could be found on GitHub [2].\n\nDMI: HONOR FMB-P/FMB-P-PCB, BIOS 1.13 05/08/2025\n\n[ rjw: Subject adjustment, changelog edits ]","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"ACPICA: Avoid walking the Namespace if start_node is NULL","id":"CVE-2025-71118","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"linux:linux_kernel","products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"type":"null_dereference","year":"2025"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":7,"next":{"headline":"powerpc/kexec: Enable SMT before waking offline CPUs","id":"CVE-2025-71119"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"block: Remove queue freezing from several sysfs store callbacks","id":"CVE-2025-71117"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2026-01-14","related":[{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Out-of-Bounds Write","id":"CVE-2026-53266","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2026-06-25"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Improper Input Validation","id":"CVE-2013-6282","kev_date_added":"2022-09-15","published":"2013-11-19"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Linux Kernel Heap-Based Buffer Overflow","id":"CVE-2022-0185","kev_date_added":"2024-08-21","published":"2022-02-11"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation","id":"CVE-2013-2094","kev_date_added":"2022-09-15","published":"2013-05-14"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Unspecified","id":"CVE-2026-53362","kev_date_added":"2026-08-27","published":"2026-07-04"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Missing Initialization of a Variable","id":"CVE-2026-46300","kev_date_added":"2026-10-28","published":"2026-05-23"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Race Condition","id":"CVE-2025-39964","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2025-10-13"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"partial"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-10-19","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A null pointer dereference in the Linux kernel ACPICA namespace walker causes a system crash when processing specific ACPI tables.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-71118/"}