CVE-2025-38143

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel - Null Pointer Dereference

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: backlight: pm8941: Add NULL check in wled_configure() devm_kasprintf() returns NULL when memory allocation fails. Currently, wled_configure() does not check for this case, which results in a NULL pointer dereference. Add NULL check after devm_kasprintf() to prevent this issue.

References (9)

Core 9

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0014
EPSS Percentile 33.7%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-476
Status published
Products (24)
debian/debian_linux 11.0
linux/Kernel 5.0.0 - 5.10.239linux
linux/Kernel 5.11.0 - 5.15.186linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 6.1.142linux
linux/Kernel 6.13.0 - 6.15.3linux
linux/Kernel 6.2.0 - 6.6.94linux
linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.12.34linux
Linux/Linux < 5.0
Linux/Linux 5.0
Linux/Linux 5.10.239 - 5.10.*
... and 14 more
Published Jul 03, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026