CVE-2025-71103
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Vulnerability report for CVE-2025-71103, including description, CVSS score, EPSS score, affected products, exploitability, helpful resources, and attack-flow context.
Publication date: 2026-01-14
Last updated on: 2026-03-25
Assigner: kernel.org
Description
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/msm: adreno: fix deferencing ifpc_reglist when not declared
On plaforms with an a7xx GPU not supporting IFPC, the ifpc_reglist
if still deferenced in a7xx_patch_pwrup_reglist() which causes
a kernel crash:
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000008
...
pc : a6xx_hw_init+0x155c/0x1e4c [msm]
lr : a6xx_hw_init+0x9a8/0x1e4c [msm]
...
Call trace:
a6xx_hw_init+0x155c/0x1e4c [msm] (P)
msm_gpu_hw_init+0x58/0x88 [msm]
adreno_load_gpu+0x94/0x1fc [msm]
msm_open+0xe4/0xf4 [msm]
drm_file_alloc+0x1a0/0x2e4 [drm]
drm_client_init+0x7c/0x104 [drm]
drm_fbdev_client_setup+0x94/0xcf0 [drm_client_lib]
drm_client_setup+0xb4/0xd8 [drm_client_lib]
msm_drm_kms_post_init+0x2c/0x3c [msm]
msm_drm_init+0x1a4/0x228 [msm]
msm_drm_bind+0x30/0x3c [msm]
...
Check the validity of ifpc_reglist before deferencing the table
to setup the register values.
Patchwork: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/688944/
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Meta Information
Affected Vendors & Products
| Vendor | Product | Version / Range |
|---|---|---|
| linux | linux_kernel | 6.19 |
| linux | linux_kernel | 6.19 |
| linux | linux_kernel | 6.19 |
| linux | linux_kernel | 6.19 |
| linux | linux_kernel | 6.19 |
| linux | linux_kernel | 6.18 |
| linux | linux_kernel | 6.19 |
| linux | linux_kernel | 6.19 |
| linux | linux_kernel | 6.19 |
| linux | linux_kernel | From 6.18.1 (inc) to 6.18.3 (exc) |
Helpful Resources
Exploitability
CWE
KEV
| CWE ID | Description |
|---|---|
| CWE-476 | The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL. |
