CVE-2025-23137 (GCVE-0-2025-23137)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-04-16 14:13 – Updated: 2026-05-11 21:13
VLAI
Title
cpufreq/amd-pstate: Add missing NULL ptr check in amd_pstate_update
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cpufreq/amd-pstate: Add missing NULL ptr check in amd_pstate_update Check if policy is NULL before dereferencing it in amd_pstate_update.
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: e8f555daacd3377bf691fdda2490c0b164e00085 , < 82b6dfff0d6000b14b271f74e43d672d81fb390e (git)
Affected: e8f555daacd3377bf691fdda2490c0b164e00085 , < b99c1c63d88c75a4dc5487c3696cda38697b8d35 (git)
Affected: e8f555daacd3377bf691fdda2490c0b164e00085 , < 426db24d4db2e4f0d6720aeb7795eafcb9e82640 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.11
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.11 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.35 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.14.2 , ≤ 6.14.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.15 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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