CVE-2025-38143

medium

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

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fde314445332015273c8f51d2659885c606fe135

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e12d3e1624a02706cdd3628bbf5668827214fa33

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9d06ac32c202142da40904180f2669ed4f5073ac

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6a56446595730a5e3f06a30902e23cb037d28146

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4a715be3fe80b68fa55cb3569af3d294be101626

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/21528806560510458378ea52c37e35b0773afaea

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1be2000b703b02e149f8f2061054489f6c18c972

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-07-03

Updated: 2025-07-03

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00033