CVE-2025-37974: s390/pci: Fix missing check for zpci_create_device() error return
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2025-37974 is a medium (CVSS 5.5) NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in linux. EPSS estimates a 0.19% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 8.3% of scored vulnerabilities.
Not severe (CVSS 5.5, local access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources
Source freshness unavailable
How is this decided?Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 26 · Related 26Timeline
- 20-05-2025PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 23-05-2026Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: s390/pci: Fix missing check for zpci_create_device() error return The zpci_create_device() function returns an error pointer that needs to be checked before dereferencing it as a struct zpci_dev pointer. Add the missing check in __clp_add() where it was missed when adding the scan_list in the fixed commit. Simply not adding the device to the scan list results in the previous behavior.
CVSS metrics
3 scores · 3 sources · 1 version- OSV · UbuntuEcosystem advisory · calculated5.5MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- OSV · DebianEcosystem advisory · calculated5.5MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS trend
Probability
0.19%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
8%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
Increase +0.01 pp
From 0.18% on 04-10-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEVNot in the CISA KEV catalog.
ENISA CNWNot in the ENISA CNW catalog.
CIRCLNot in the CIRCL catalog.
Public exploits
0 foundNo public exploits indexed.
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeAffected systems
Known conditions: local access, low-privilege account, no user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.
Ubuntu109 products
- linux< 6.8.0-64.67
- linux-allwinner-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
- linux-aws< 6.8.0-1032.34
- linux-aws-5.0All versions (No fix recorded)
- linux-aws-5.11All versions (No fix recorded)
Linux2 products
- linux≥ 1f3b309108fd0660ea8614a72328ba866ccd3378, < be54b750c333a9db7c3b3686846bb06b07b011fe | ≥ 0467cdde8c4320bbfdb31a8cff1277b202f677fc, < 2769b718e164df983c20c314b263a71a699be6cd | ≥ 0467cdde8c4320bbfdb31a8cff1277b202f677fc, < 42420c50c68f3e95e90de2479464f420602229fc | ≥ 6.12.5, < 6.12.29 | 6.13
- linux_kernel≥ 6.12.5, < 6.12.29 | ≥ 6.13, < 6.14.7 | 6.15:rc1 | 6.15:rc2 | 6.15:rc3 | 6.15:rc4 | 6.15:rc5
Debian1 product
- linux< 6.12.29-1
3 vendors · 112 products
