CVE-2025-40162 (GCVE-0-2025-40162)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-11-12 10:26 – Updated: 2025-12-01 06:19
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Title
ASoC: amd/sdw_utils: avoid NULL deref when devm_kasprintf() fails
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ASoC: amd/sdw_utils: avoid NULL deref when devm_kasprintf() fails devm_kasprintf() may return NULL on memory allocation failure, but the debug message prints cpus->dai_name before checking it. Move the dev_dbg() call after the NULL check to prevent potential NULL pointer dereference.
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Linux Linux Affected: cb8ea62e6402067ba092d4c1d66a9440513a572b , < 095d692e5997ece300c89f10d903d5230090e6a0 (git)
Affected: cb8ea62e6402067ba092d4c1d66a9440513a572b , < a1cccbd19676fc36854535a7118ba2c27d0b84b3 (git)
Affected: cb8ea62e6402067ba092d4c1d66a9440513a572b , < 5726b68473f7153a7f6294185e5998b7e2a230a2 (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 6.12
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.12 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.55 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.17.5 , ≤ 6.17.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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