CVE-2025-40059 (GCVE-0-2025-40059)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-28 11:48 – Updated: 2025-12-01 06:17
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Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: coresight: Fix incorrect handling for return value of devm_kzalloc The return value of devm_kzalloc could be an null pointer, use "!desc.pdata" to fix incorrect handling return value of devm_kzalloc.
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Linux Linux Affected: 4277f035d227e829133df284be7e35b7236a5b0f , < 8c4e7e646d5d9050b374baf5c6bb3a00fb79e206 (git)
Affected: 4277f035d227e829133df284be7e35b7236a5b0f , < 9688b66d0a5e0eecf44f6286b8d9f7a161264035 (git)
Affected: 4277f035d227e829133df284be7e35b7236a5b0f , < 70714eb7243eaf333d23501d4c7bdd9daf011c01 (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 6.8
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.8 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.53 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.17.3 , ≤ 6.17.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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