Vulnerability in Linux

CVE-2025-40030

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: pinctrl: check the return value of pinmux_ops::get_function_name() While the API contract in docs doesn't specify it explicitly, the generic implementation of the get_function_name() callback from struct pinmux_ops - pinmux_generic_get_function_name() - can fail and return NULL. This is already checked in pinmux_check_ops() so add a similar check in pinmux_func_name_to_selector() instead of passing the returned pointer right down to strcmp() where the NULL can get dereferenced. This is normal operation when adding new pinfunctions.

EPSS: 0.002 (11.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Linux — versions f913cfce4ee49a3382a9ff95696f49a46e56e974, 4.19, 0

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