In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ACPICA: check null return of ACPIALLOCATEZEROED() in acpidbconverttopackage() ACPICA commit 4d4547cf13cca820ff7e0f859ba83e1a610b9fd0 ACPIALLOCATEZEROED() may fail, elements might be NULL and will cause NULL pointer dereference later. [ rjw: Subject and changelog edits ]