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CVE-2025-40060 (GCVE-0-2025-40060)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-28 11:48 – Updated: 2026-05-11 21:41
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Title
coresight: trbe: Return NULL pointer for allocation failures
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: coresight: trbe: Return NULL pointer for allocation failures When the TRBE driver fails to allocate a buffer, it currently returns the error code "-ENOMEM". However, the caller etm_setup_aux() only checks for a NULL pointer, so it misses the error. As a result, the driver continues and eventually causes a kernel panic. Fix this by returning a NULL pointer from arm_trbe_alloc_buffer() on allocation failures. This allows that the callers can properly handle the failure.
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Assigner
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 3fbf7f011f2426dac8c982f1d2ef469a7959a524 , < cef047e0a55cb07906fcaae99170f19a9c0bb6c2 (git)
Affected: 3fbf7f011f2426dac8c982f1d2ef469a7959a524 , < fe53a726d5edf864e80b490780cc135fc1adece9 (git)
Affected: 3fbf7f011f2426dac8c982f1d2ef469a7959a524 , < 9768536f82600a05ce901e31ccfabd92c027ff71 (git)
Affected: 3fbf7f011f2426dac8c982f1d2ef469a7959a524 , < 296da78494633e1ab5e2e74173a9c8683b04aa6b (git)
Affected: 3fbf7f011f2426dac8c982f1d2ef469a7959a524 , < f505a165f1c7cd37b4cb6952042a5984693a4067 (git)
Affected: 3fbf7f011f2426dac8c982f1d2ef469a7959a524 , < 8a55c161f7f9c1aa1c70611b39830d51c83ef36d (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.13
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.13 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.195 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.156 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.112 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.53 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.17.3 , ≤ 6.17.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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