CVE-2025-38143 (GCVE-0-2025-38143)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-07-03 08:35 – Updated: 2026-05-11 21:22
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Title
backlight: pm8941: Add NULL check in wled_configure()
Summary
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.
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Linux Linux Affected: f86b77583d88c8402e8d89a339d96f847318f8a8 , < 6a56446595730a5e3f06a30902e23cb037d28146 (git)
Affected: f86b77583d88c8402e8d89a339d96f847318f8a8 , < 9d06ac32c202142da40904180f2669ed4f5073ac (git)
Affected: f86b77583d88c8402e8d89a339d96f847318f8a8 , < 21528806560510458378ea52c37e35b0773afaea (git)
Affected: f86b77583d88c8402e8d89a339d96f847318f8a8 , < fde314445332015273c8f51d2659885c606fe135 (git)
Affected: f86b77583d88c8402e8d89a339d96f847318f8a8 , < 1be2000b703b02e149f8f2061054489f6c18c972 (git)
Affected: f86b77583d88c8402e8d89a339d96f847318f8a8 , < 4a715be3fe80b68fa55cb3569af3d294be101626 (git)
Affected: f86b77583d88c8402e8d89a339d96f847318f8a8 , < e12d3e1624a02706cdd3628bbf5668827214fa33 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.0
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.0 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.239 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.186 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.142 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.94 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.34 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.15.3 , ≤ 6.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.16 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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