CVE-2025-38705: drm/amd/pm: fix null pointer access
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2025-38705 is a medium (CVSS 5.5) NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in linux. EPSS estimates a 0.16% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 4.6% of scored vulnerabilities.
Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 33 · Related 33Timeline
- 04-09-2025PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 21-10-2026Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/amd/pm: fix null pointer access Writing a string without delimiters (' ', '\n', '\0') to the under gpu_od/fan_ctrl sysfs or pp_power_profile_mode for the CUSTOM profile will result in a null pointer dereference.
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
0.16%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
5%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
No change 0.00 pp
From 0.15% on 22-09-2026
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
Ubuntu149 products
- linuxAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 6.8.0-100.100
- linux-allwinner-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
- linux-awsAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 6.8.0-1046.49
- linux-aws-5.0All versions (No fix recorded)
- linux-aws-5.11All versions (No fix recorded)
Linux2 products
- linux≥ 37c5c4dbf03b167b5ca68d4bbc7fb6c92a463fb4, < 29a15e06a3d41f60a73a8a0ad7847b11c55f61bf | ≥ 37c5c4dbf03b167b5ca68d4bbc7fb6c92a463fb4, < a83ffafd02a7af59848755c109d544e3894af737 | ≥ 37c5c4dbf03b167b5ca68d4bbc7fb6c92a463fb4, < 5d8cc029e5595760c7d18c64632e8e40a86a9b2e | ≥ 37c5c4dbf03b167b5ca68d4bbc7fb6c92a463fb4, < cef79c18538e9ce2ca6e5b3fa95c38ec41dcd07a | ≥ 37c5c4dbf03b167b5ca68d4bbc7fb6c92a463fb4, < d524d40e3a6152a3ea1125af729f8cd8ca65efde | 4.17
- linux_kernel< 6.12.43 | ≥ 6.13, < 6.15.11 | ≥ 6.16, < 6.16.2
Debian1 product
- linuxAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 6.12.43-1 | < 6.16.3-1
3 vendors · 152 products
