CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-38610
5.5 MEDIUM
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- 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:
powercap: dtpm_cpu: Fix NULL pointer dereference in get_pd_power_uw()
The get_pd_power_uw() function can crash with a NULL pointer dereference
when em_cpu_get() returns NULL. This occurs when a CPU becomes impossible
during runtime, causing get_cpu_device() to return NULL, which propagates
through em_cpu_get() and leads to a crash when em_span_cpus() dereferences
the NULL pointer.
Add a NULL check after em_cpu_get() and return 0 if unavailable,
matching the existing fallback behavior in __dtpm_cpu_setup().
[ rjw: Drop an excess empty code line ]
Affected configurations
• 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/27914f2b795e2b58e9506f281dcdd98fef09d3c2 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/27e0318f0ea69fcfa32228847debc384ade14578 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2fd001a0075ac01dc64a28a8e21226b3d989a91d Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/46dc57406887dd02565cb264224194a6776d882b Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8374ac7d69a57d737e701a851ffe980a0d27d3ad Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c6ec27091cf5ac05094c1fe3a6ce914cf711a37c Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00008.html Third Party Advisory