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GHSA-WC7P-8P5C-3RJG

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-11-12 12:30 – Updated: 2025-11-12 12:30

Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

PM / devfreq: mtk-cci: Fix potential error pointer dereference in probe()

The drv->sram_reg pointer could be set to ERR_PTR(-EPROBE_DEFER) which would lead to a error pointer dereference. Use IS_ERR_OR_NULL() to check that the pointer is valid.

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  "modified": "2025-11-12T12:30:28Z",
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CVE-2025-40156 (GCVE-0-2025-40156)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-11-12 10:23 – Updated: 2025-12-01 06:19

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: PM / devfreq: mtk-cci: Fix potential error pointer dereference in probe() The drv->sram_reg pointer could be set to ERR_PTR(-EPROBE_DEFER) which would lead to a error pointer dereference. Use IS_ERR_OR_NULL() to check that the pointer is valid.

Severity ?

No CVSS data available.

Assigner

Linux

References

URL

Tags

	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9cc23e221f392304b…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/80eab6a9df7e1107d…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/44e32104cf7e670e3…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/24d61b6e23d2c7291…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fc33bf0e097c68346…

Impacted products

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Product

Version

Linux

Affected: e09bd5757b5227d6804b30c58d4587f7f87d1afa , < 9cc23e221f392304b7b8aad213812564ddf6517e (git)
Affected: e09bd5757b5227d6804b30c58d4587f7f87d1afa , < 80eab6a9df7e1107dc334434dbacd05297703377 (git)
Affected: e09bd5757b5227d6804b30c58d4587f7f87d1afa , < 44e32104cf7e670e3d683c97b52350d8fac23322 (git)
Affected: e09bd5757b5227d6804b30c58d4587f7f87d1afa , < 24d61b6e23d2c7291c528dd43a0bf76b5c05c8f0 (git)
Affected: e09bd5757b5227d6804b30c58d4587f7f87d1afa , < fc33bf0e097c6834646b98a7b3da0ae5b617f0f9 (git)

Linux

Affected: 6.1
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.1 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.156 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.112 , ≤ 6.6.* (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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GHSA-WC7P-8P5C-3RJG

CVE-2025-40156 (GCVE-0-2025-40156)

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