CVE-2025-37841
pm: cpupower: bench: Prevent NULL dereference on malloc failure
Vexday Risk Score
3Low
SSVC decision (CISA)
Track
No exploitation signal → monitor
CVSS —EPSS 0.2%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei —Metasploit —Patch —
Lifecycle
09 May 2025Published on NVD
Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.
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 products
Linux · LinuxReferences
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0e297a02e03dceb2874789ca40bd4e65c5371704https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/208baa3ec9043a664d9acfb8174b332e6b17fb69https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/34a9394794b0f97af6afedc0c9ee2012c24b28edhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5e38122aa3fd0f9788186e86a677925bfec0b2d1https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/79bded9d70142d2a11d931fc029afece471641dbhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/87b9f0867c0afa7e892f4b30c36cff6bf2707f85https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/942a4b97fc77516678b1d8af1521ff9a94c13b3ehttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ceec06f464d5cfc0ba966225f7d50506ceb62242https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f8d28fa305b78c5d1073b63f26db265ba8291ae1https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00030.htmlhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00045.html