CVE-2025-39729
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Publication date: 2025-09-07

Last updated on: 2025-11-25

Assigner: kernel.org

Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: crypto: ccp - Fix dereferencing uninitialized error pointer Fix below smatch warnings: drivers/crypto/ccp/sev-dev.c:1312 __sev_platform_init_locked() error: we previously assumed 'error' could be null
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Published
2025-09-07
Last Modified
2025-11-25
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2026-06-16
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2025-09-07
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2026-06-14
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CVE-2025-39729
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linux linux_kernel 6.16
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CWE-824 The product accesses or uses a pointer that has not been initialized.
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This vulnerability in the Linux kernel's crypto CCP driver involved dereferencing an uninitialized error pointer, which was fixed by correcting the assumption that the 'error' pointer could be null in the __sev_platform_init_locked() function.

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