CVE-2025-37841 (GCVE-0-2025-37841)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-05-09 06:41 – Updated: 2025-11-03 19:56
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Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: pm: cpupower: bench: Prevent NULL dereference on malloc failure If malloc returns NULL due to low memory, 'config' pointer can be NULL. Add a check to prevent NULL dereference.
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Vendor Product Version
Linux Linux Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 34a9394794b0f97af6afedc0c9ee2012c24b28ed (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 79bded9d70142d2a11d931fc029afece471641db (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 0e297a02e03dceb2874789ca40bd4e65c5371704 (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 87b9f0867c0afa7e892f4b30c36cff6bf2707f85 (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 942a4b97fc77516678b1d8af1521ff9a94c13b3e (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < f8d28fa305b78c5d1073b63f26db265ba8291ae1 (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < ceec06f464d5cfc0ba966225f7d50506ceb62242 (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 5e38122aa3fd0f9788186e86a677925bfec0b2d1 (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 208baa3ec9043a664d9acfb8174b332e6b17fb69 (git)
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    Linux Linux Unaffected: 5.4.293 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.237 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.181 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.135 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.88 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.24 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.13.12 , ≤ 6.13.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.14.3 , ≤ 6.14.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.15 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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