CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-37841
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2025-05-09
- 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
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 5.4.293)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.237)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.181)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.135)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.88)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.24)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.13.12)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.14 < 6.14.3)
• debian debian linux 11.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0e297a02e03dceb2874789ca40bd4e65c5371704 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/208baa3ec9043a664d9acfb8174b332e6b17fb69 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/34a9394794b0f97af6afedc0c9ee2012c24b28ed Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5e38122aa3fd0f9788186e86a677925bfec0b2d1 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/79bded9d70142d2a11d931fc029afece471641db Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/87b9f0867c0afa7e892f4b30c36cff6bf2707f85 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/942a4b97fc77516678b1d8af1521ff9a94c13b3e Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ceec06f464d5cfc0ba966225f7d50506ceb62242 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f8d28fa305b78c5d1073b63f26db265ba8291ae1 Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00030.html Mailing List
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00045.html Mailing List