# 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-2026-93114"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-17T16:11:22.463Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:05:48.069Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:35.090Z"
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-2026-93114"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-93114.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-93114"
title: "platform/surface: acpi-notify: Check ACPI companion before use"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nplatform/surface: acpi-notify: Check ACPI companion before use\n\nSince every platform driver can be forced to match a device that doesn't\nmatch its list of device IDs because of device_match_driver_override(),\nplatform drivers that rely on the existence of a device's ACPI companion\nobject should verify its presence.\n\nsan_probe() dereferences the result of ACPI_COMPANION() when installing\nthe GSBUS address space handler, so force-binding the driver to a device\nwithout an ACPI companion leads to a NULL pointer dereference.  The\ndereference was introduced when the probe function was switched from\nACPI_HANDLE() to ACPI_COMPANION().\n\nCheck the ACPI companion against NULL and return -ENODEV when it is\nmissing, like commit e4865a56d013 (\"ACPI: driver: Check ACPI_COMPANION()\nagainst NULL during probe\") does for the core ACPI platform drivers."
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