CVEvulnerability

CVE-2025-22078

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2025-04-16 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2025-04-16
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: staging: vchiq_arm: Fix possible NPR of keep-alive thread In case vchiq_platform_conn_state_changed() is never called or fails before driver removal, ka_thread won't be a valid pointer to a task_struct. So do the necessary checks before calling kthread_stop to avoid a crash.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 6.11 < 6.12.23) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.13.11) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.14 < 6.14.2)

References