CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-38583
5.5 MEDIUM
Official page ↗
- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2025-08-19
- 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:
clk: xilinx: vcu: unregister pll_post only if registered correctly
If registration of pll_post is failed, it will be set to NULL or ERR,
unregistering same will fail with following call trace:
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 008
pc : clk_hw_unregister+0xc/0x20
lr : clk_hw_unregister_fixed_factor+0x18/0x30
sp : ffff800011923850
...
Call trace:
clk_hw_unregister+0xc/0x20
clk_hw_unregister_fixed_factor+0x18/0x30
xvcu_unregister_clock_provider+0xcc/0xf4 [xlnx_vcu]
xvcu_probe+0x2bc/0x53c [xlnx_vcu]
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.12 < 5.15.190)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.148)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.102)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.42)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.15.10)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.16 < 6.16.1)
• debian debian linux 11.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3b0abc443ac22f7d4f61ddbbbbc5dbb06c87139d Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/51990eecf22f446550befdfd1a9f54147eafd636 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7e903da71f8bec4beb7c06707900e1ed8db843ca Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/86124c5cfceb5ac04d2fddbf1b6f7147332d96a3 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/88bd875b7f9c3652c27d6e4bb7a23701b764f762 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a72b1c2d3b53e088bfaeb593949ff6fbd2cbe8ed Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f1a1be99d5ae53d3b404415f1665eb59e8e02a8c Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00008.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory