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FKIE_CVE-2025-40234

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-12-04 16:16 - Updated: 2025-12-04 17:15

Severity ?

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: platform/x86: alienware-wmi-wmax: Fix NULL pointer dereference in sleep handlers Devices without the AWCC interface don't initialize `awcc`. Add a check before dereferencing it in sleep handlers.

References

	URL	Tags
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/24c3812c9e817d19e4842d7495561594de1ddcb4
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a49c4d48c3b60926e6a8cec217bf95aa65388ecc

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version

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    }
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  "lastModified": "2025-12-04T17:15:08.283",
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  "published": "2025-12-04T16:16:16.273",
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  "vulnStatus": "Awaiting Analysis"
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CVE-2025-40234 (GCVE-0-2025-40234)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-04 15:31 – Updated: 2025-12-04 15:31

Title

platform/x86: alienware-wmi-wmax: Fix NULL pointer dereference in sleep handlers

Summary

Severity ?

No CVSS data available.

Assigner

Linux

References

URL

Tags

	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/24c3812c9e817d19e…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a49c4d48c3b60926e…

Impacted products

Vendor

Product

Version

Linux

Affected: 07ac275981b1f11a58dd7bb7790eed66252b072c , < 24c3812c9e817d19e4842d7495561594de1ddcb4 (git)
Affected: 07ac275981b1f11a58dd7bb7790eed66252b072c , < a49c4d48c3b60926e6a8cec217bf95aa65388ecc (git)

Linux

Affected: 6.16
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.16 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.17.6 , ≤ 6.17.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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FKIE_CVE-2025-40234

CVE-2025-40234 (GCVE-0-2025-40234)

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