CVE-2025-38705 (GCVE-0-2025-38705)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-09-04 15:32 – Updated: 2026-05-11 21:33
VLAI
Title
drm/amd/pm: fix null pointer access
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/amd/pm: fix null pointer access Writing a string without delimiters (' ', '\n', '\0') to the under gpu_od/fan_ctrl sysfs or pp_power_profile_mode for the CUSTOM profile will result in a null pointer dereference.
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: 37c5c4dbf03b167b5ca68d4bbc7fb6c92a463fb4 , < a83ffafd02a7af59848755c109d544e3894af737 (git)
Affected: 37c5c4dbf03b167b5ca68d4bbc7fb6c92a463fb4 , < 5d8cc029e5595760c7d18c64632e8e40a86a9b2e (git)
Affected: 37c5c4dbf03b167b5ca68d4bbc7fb6c92a463fb4 , < cef79c18538e9ce2ca6e5b3fa95c38ec41dcd07a (git)
Affected: 37c5c4dbf03b167b5ca68d4bbc7fb6c92a463fb4 , < d524d40e3a6152a3ea1125af729f8cd8ca65efde (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 4.17
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.17 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.43 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.15.11 , ≤ 6.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.16.2 , ≤ 6.16.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.17 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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