CVE-2025-37841

Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 48
Analyzed
Published: 09 May 2025, 06:41
Last modified:11 May 2026, 21:16

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
low
22/100
CVSS Score
5.5 MEDIUM
v3.1 (nvd)
EPSS Score
0.05% LOW
0% probability +0.03%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

09 May 2025, 06:41
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
11 May 2026, 21:16
Last Modified
Vulnerability 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

  • v3.1•MEDIUM•Score: 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 0.05%• Percentile: 16%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-476•NULL Pointer Dereference

    The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.

Affected Systems

  • debian•debian_linux

    11.0

  • linux•linux

    ≥ 7fe2f6399a84760a9af8896ac152728250f82adb, < 34a9394794b0f97af6afedc0c9ee2012c24b28ed | ≥ 7fe2f6399a84760a9af8896ac152728250f82adb, < 79bded9d70142d2a11d931fc029afece471641db | ≥ 7fe2f6399a84760a9af8896ac152728250f82adb, < 0e297a02e03dceb2874789ca40bd4e65c5371704 | ≥ 7fe2f6399a84760a9af8896ac152728250f82adb, < 87b9f0867c0afa7e892f4b30c36cff6bf2707f85 | ≥ 7fe2f6399a84760a9af8896ac152728250f82adb, < 942a4b97fc77516678b1d8af1521ff9a94c13b3e | ≥ 7fe2f6399a84760a9af8896ac152728250f82adb, < f8d28fa305b78c5d1073b63f26db265ba8291ae1 | ≥ 7fe2f6399a84760a9af8896ac152728250f82adb, < ceec06f464d5cfc0ba966225f7d50506ceb62242 | ≥ 7fe2f6399a84760a9af8896ac152728250f82adb, < 5e38122aa3fd0f9788186e86a677925bfec0b2d1 | ≥ 7fe2f6399a84760a9af8896ac152728250f82adb, < 208baa3ec9043a664d9acfb8174b332e6b17fb69 | 3.1

  • linux•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

References (11)