# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-23237"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-03-04T14:38:41.815Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T22:02:58.604Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:02.025Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-23237"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-23237.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-23237"
title: "platform/x86: classmate-laptop: Add missing NULL pointer checks"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nplatform/x86: classmate-laptop: Add missing NULL pointer checks\n\nIn a few places in the Classmate laptop driver, code using the accel\nobject may run before that object's address is stored in the driver\ndata of the input device using it.\n\nFor example, cmpc_accel_sensitivity_store_v4() is the \"show\" method\nof cmpc_accel_sensitivity_attr_v4 which is added in cmpc_accel_add_v4(),\nbefore calling dev_set_drvdata() for inputdev-\u003edev.  If the sysfs\nattribute is accessed prematurely, the dev_get_drvdata(&inputdev-\u003edev)\ncall in in cmpc_accel_sensitivity_store_v4() returns NULL which\nleads to a NULL pointer dereference going forward.\n\nMoreover, sysfs attributes using the input device are added before\ninitializing that device by cmpc_add_acpi_notify_device() and if one\nof them is accessed before running that function, a NULL pointer\ndereference will occur.\n\nFor example, cmpc_accel_sensitivity_attr_v4 is added before calling\ncmpc_add_acpi_notify_device() and if it is read prematurely, the\ndev_get_drvdata(&acpi-\u003edev) call in cmpc_accel_sensitivity_show_v4()\nreturns NULL which leads to a NULL pointer dereference going forward.\n\nFix this by adding NULL pointer checks in all of the relevant places."
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