Vulnerability in Linux

CVE-2025-40224

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.

EPSS: 0.002 (6.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Linux — versions 08ebc9def79fc0c4dbb6ecc39263006e3f98b750, 6.15, 0

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