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CVE-2025-37971 (GCVE-0-2025-37971)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-05-20 16:47 – Updated: 2026-05-11 21:18
VLAI
Title
staging: bcm2835-camera: Initialise dev in v4l2_dev
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: staging: bcm2835-camera: Initialise dev in v4l2_dev Commit 42a2f6664e18 ("staging: vc04_services: Move global g_state to vchiq_state") changed mmal_init to pass dev->v4l2_dev.dev to vchiq_mmal_init, however nothing iniitialised dev->v4l2_dev, so we got a NULL pointer dereference. Set dev->v4l2_dev.dev during bcm2835_mmal_probe. The device pointer could be passed into v4l2_device_register to set it, however that also has other effects that would need additional changes.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 42a2f6664e18874302623f31edef545ef41e1d14 , < 06753f49336ab161ea0e249a0720125b81b7b31b (git)
Affected: 42a2f6664e18874302623f31edef545ef41e1d14 , < b70bdd4923e8b8edbacde2af83ca337bb7005261 (git)
Affected: 42a2f6664e18874302623f31edef545ef41e1d14 , < 98698ca0e58734bc5c1c24e5bbc7429f981cd186 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.10
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.10 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.29 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.14.7 , ≤ 6.14.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.15 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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