CVE-2025-40224 (GCVE-0-2025-40224)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-04 15:31 – Updated: 2026-05-11 21:45
VLAI
Title
hwmon: (cgbc-hwmon) Add missing NULL check after devm_kzalloc()
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.
Severity
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 08ebc9def79fc0c4dbb6ecc39263006e3f98b750 , < 240b82b86a091c1aa49d951d4467425420a081a0 (git)
Affected: 08ebc9def79fc0c4dbb6ecc39263006e3f98b750 , < a09a5aa8bf258ddc99a22c30f17fe304b96b5350 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.15
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.15 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.17.6 , ≤ 6.17.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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