# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-93115"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-17T16:11:23.145Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:05:49.022Z"
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-2026-93115"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-93115.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-93115"
title: "platform/mellanox: mlxbf-pmc: Check ACPI_COMPANION() against NULL"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nplatform/mellanox: mlxbf-pmc: Check ACPI_COMPANION() against NULL\n\nEvery platform driver can be forced to match a device that doesn't match\nits list of device IDs because of device_match_driver_override(), so\nplatform drivers that rely on the existence of a device's ACPI companion\nobject need to verify its presence.\n\nmlxbf_pmc_probe() passes the result of ACPI_COMPANION() to\nacpi_device_hid(), which dereferences it, so force-binding the driver to\na device without an ACPI companion leads to a NULL pointer dereference.\n\nAccordingly, add a requisite ACPI_COMPANION() check against NULL to the\nmlxbf-pmc driver and return -ENODEV when the companion is missing."
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