CVE-2025-22078 (GCVE-0-2025-22078)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-04-16 14:12 – Updated: 2026-05-11 21:12
VLAI
Title
staging: vchiq_arm: Fix possible NPR of keep-alive thread
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: staging: vchiq_arm: Fix possible NPR of keep-alive thread In case vchiq_platform_conn_state_changed() is never called or fails before driver removal, ka_thread won't be a valid pointer to a task_struct. So do the necessary checks before calling kthread_stop to avoid a crash.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 863a756aaf49ed23d25bbb1dad999a85f09e1836 , < 1817c4b85011998604e5ff9a80a6e01adb7e7e81 (git)
Affected: 863a756aaf49ed23d25bbb1dad999a85f09e1836 , < a915c896f95a989a7759a73f8c064f5dc3775175 (git)
Affected: 863a756aaf49ed23d25bbb1dad999a85f09e1836 , < bd38395b901327f77a82112f006240de22cf2ceb (git)
Affected: 863a756aaf49ed23d25bbb1dad999a85f09e1836 , < 3db89bc6d973e2bcaa852f6409c98c228f39a926 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.11
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.11 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.23 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.13.11 , ≤ 6.13.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.14.2 , ≤ 6.14.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.15 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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