CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-71291
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2026-05-06
- Last modified
- 2026-10-14
- 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:
misc: bcm_vk: Fix possible null-pointer dereferences in bcm_vk_read()
In the function bcm_vk_read(), the pointer entry is checked, indicating
that it can be NULL. If entry is NULL and rc is set to -EMSGSIZE, the
following code may cause null-pointer dereferences:
struct vk_msg_blk tmp_msg = entry->to_h_msg[0];
set_msg_id(&tmp_msg, entry->usr_msg_id);
tmp_msg.size = entry->to_h_blks - 1;
To prevent these possible null-pointer dereferences, copy to_h_msg,
usr_msg_id, and to_h_blks from iter into temporary variables, and return
these temporary variables to the application instead of accessing them
through a potentially NULL entry.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.19 < 6.1.165)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.128)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.75)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.18.16)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.19 < 6.19.6)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/20f2d9dbe5e972516f8f9948d7ae5b95d1ad77bd Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3842f93e6e29d5cc1dcb9e5bda70587b444bed69 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/741c5a3a0cd893a4218fc0fc8c18403e54fcfb22 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/aa97ccc3dc1eba9f4537f0410e9dbb0b05ccf2fb Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ba75ecb97d3f4e95d59002c13afb6519205be6cb Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ece3722169ba93734bfd1f06255e8ab7f19fe964 Patch