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GHSA-9QXW-372M-V533

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-09-05 18:31 – Updated: 2025-11-25 21:32

Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

media: iris: Fix NULL pointer dereference

A warning reported by smatch indicated a possible null pointer dereference where one of the arguments to API "iris_hfi_gen2_handle_system_error" could sometimes be null.

To fix this, add a check to validate that the argument passed is not null before accessing its members.

Severity

5.5 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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CVE-2025-39708 (GCVE-0-2025-39708)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-09-05 17:21 – Updated: 2026-05-11 21:34

Title

media: iris: Fix NULL pointer dereference

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: iris: Fix NULL pointer dereference A warning reported by smatch indicated a possible null pointer dereference where one of the arguments to API "iris_hfi_gen2_handle_system_error" could sometimes be null. To fix this, add a check to validate that the argument passed is not null before accessing its members.

Severity

No CVSS data available.

Assigner

Linux mitre root

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/992ddee3c0da5f113…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0f837559ccdd275c5…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: fb583a214337a5600c121c9e1eecbb57fa9db688 , < 992ddee3c0da5f113ba86892ace467c1ac645538 (git) Affected: fb583a214337a5600c121c9e1eecbb57fa9db688 , < 0f837559ccdd275c5a059e6ac4d5034b03409f1d (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 6.15 Unaffected: 0 , < 6.15 (semver) Unaffected: 6.16.4 , ≤ 6.16.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.17 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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