CVE-2025-40224 (GCVE-0-2025-40224)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-12-04 15:31
Modified
2025-12-04 15:31
Severity ?
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: hwmon: (cgbc-hwmon) Add missing NULL check after devm_kzalloc() The driver allocates memory for sensor data using devm_kzalloc(), but did not check if the allocation succeeded. In case of memory allocation failure, dereferencing the NULL pointer would lead to a kernel crash. Add a NULL pointer check and return -ENOMEM to handle allocation failure properly.
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Linux Linux Version: 08ebc9def79fc0c4dbb6ecc39263006e3f98b750
Version: 08ebc9def79fc0c4dbb6ecc39263006e3f98b750
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