CVE-2025-40156

PM / devfreq: mtk-cci: Fix potential error pointer dereference in probe()

EPSS 0.2%

Vexday Risk Score

3Low

SSVC decision (CISA)

Track

No exploitation signal → monitor

CVSS —EPSS 0.2%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei —Metasploit —Patch —

Lifecycle

12 Nov 2025Published on NVD

Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: PM / devfreq: mtk-cci: Fix potential error pointer dereference in probe() The drv->sram_reg pointer could be set to ERR_PTR(-EPROBE_DEFER) which would lead to a error pointer dereference. Use IS_ERR_OR_NULL() to check that the pointer is valid.

Affected products

Linux · Linux

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/24d61b6e23d2c7291c528dd43a0bf76b5c05c8f0 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/44e32104cf7e670e3d683c97b52350d8fac23322 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/80eab6a9df7e1107dc334434dbacd05297703377 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9cc23e221f392304b7b8aad213812564ddf6517e https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fc33bf0e097c6834646b98a7b3da0ae5b617f0f9