5.5

CVE-2025-37841: pm: cpupower: bench: Prevent NULL dereference on malloc failure

Analyzed
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2025-37841DEBIAN-CVE-2025-37841
Published 09-05-2025Last modified 11-05-2026

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2025-37841 is a medium (CVSS 5.5) NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in debian debian_linux. EPSS estimates a 0.30% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 22.6% of scored vulnerabilities.

Priority
Routine

Not severe (CVSS 5.5, local access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?
CVSS score
5.5/10
010
Medium · v3.1 (NVD)
EPSS score
0.30%
0%100%
Low · +0.01 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedNot listed by any tracked catalog.
RansomwareNot flaggedNo ransomware use recorded.
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 47 · Related 45
DLA-4178-1DLA-4193-1OPENSUSE-SU-2026:20287-1SUSE-SU-2025:01964-1SUSE-SU-2025:01965-1SUSE-SU-2025:02000-1

Timeline

  1. 09-05-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 11-05-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: pm: cpupower: bench: Prevent NULL dereference on malloc failure If malloc returns NULL due to low memory, 'config' pointer can be NULL. Add a check to prevent NULL dereference.

CVSS metrics

3 scores · 3 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.30%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

23%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

Increase +0.01 pp

From 0.29% on 04-10-2026

04-10-202603-11-2026

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEV

Not in the CISA KEV catalog.

ENISA CNW

Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.

CIRCL

Not in the CIRCL catalog.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Version check

Known conditions: local access, low-privilege account, no user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.

Ubuntu139 products
  • linuxAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 5.15.0-144.157 | < 6.8.0-100.100
  • linux-allwinner-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-awsAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 5.15.0-1088.95 | < 6.8.0-1046.49
  • linux-aws-5.0All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws-5.11All versions (No fix recorded)
Debian2 products
Linux2 products
  • linux≥ 7fe2f6399a84760a9af8896ac152728250f82adb, < 34a9394794b0f97af6afedc0c9ee2012c24b28ed | ≥ 7fe2f6399a84760a9af8896ac152728250f82adb, < 79bded9d70142d2a11d931fc029afece471641db | ≥ 7fe2f6399a84760a9af8896ac152728250f82adb, < 0e297a02e03dceb2874789ca40bd4e65c5371704 | ≥ 7fe2f6399a84760a9af8896ac152728250f82adb, < 87b9f0867c0afa7e892f4b30c36cff6bf2707f85 | ≥ 7fe2f6399a84760a9af8896ac152728250f82adb, < 942a4b97fc77516678b1d8af1521ff9a94c13b3e | ≥ 7fe2f6399a84760a9af8896ac152728250f82adb, < f8d28fa305b78c5d1073b63f26db265ba8291ae1 | ≥ 7fe2f6399a84760a9af8896ac152728250f82adb, < ceec06f464d5cfc0ba966225f7d50506ceb62242 | ≥ 7fe2f6399a84760a9af8896ac152728250f82adb, < 5e38122aa3fd0f9788186e86a677925bfec0b2d1 | ≥ 7fe2f6399a84760a9af8896ac152728250f82adb, < 208baa3ec9043a664d9acfb8174b332e6b17fb69 | 3.1
  • linux_kernel< 5.4.293 | ≥ 5.5, < 5.10.237 | ≥ 5.11, < 5.15.181 | ≥ 5.16, < 6.1.135 | ≥ 6.2, < 6.6.88 | ≥ 6.7, < 6.12.24 | ≥ 6.13, < 6.13.12 | ≥ 6.14, < 6.14.3

3 vendors · 143 products

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