CVE-2025-39892
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Publication date: 2025-10-01
Last updated on: 2025-12-12
Assigner: kernel.org
Description
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Affected Vendors & Products
| Vendor | Product | Version / Range |
|---|---|---|
| linux | linux_kernel | From 6.16 (inc) to 6.16.6 (exc) |
| linux | linux_kernel | 6.17 |
| linux | linux_kernel | 6.17 |
| linux | linux_kernel | 6.17 |
| linux | linux_kernel | 6.17 |
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Exploitability
| CWE ID | Description |
|---|---|
| CWE-476 | The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL. |
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Can you explain this vulnerability to me?
This vulnerability occurs in the Linux kernel's ASoC soc-core component, where a NULL pointer dereference can happen due to a missing driver name in the snd_soc_lookup_component_nolocked() function. Specifically, when the same device is used for both CPU and Platform in soc-generic-dmaengine-pcm.c, the CPU component driver might lack a driver name, leading to a NULL pointer access error during component lookup.
How can this vulnerability impact me? :
The impact of this vulnerability is a NULL pointer dereference error in the Linux kernel, which can cause system instability or crashes when the affected audio subsystem components are probed or unregistered. This could lead to denial of service or unexpected behavior in systems using the affected kernel components.