5.5

CVE-2025-39709: media: venus: protect against spurious interrupts during probe

Modified
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2025-39709DEBIAN-CVE-2025-39709
Published 05-09-2025Last modified 05-08-2026

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2025-39709 is a medium (CVSS 5.5) NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in debian debian_linux. EPSS estimates a 0.16% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 5.6% 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 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.16%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 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 46 · Related 40

Timeline

  1. 05-09-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 05-08-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: venus: protect against spurious interrupts during probe Make sure the interrupt handler is initialized before the interrupt is registered. If the IRQ is registered before hfi_create(), it's possible that an interrupt fires before the handler setup is complete, leading to a NULL dereference. This error condition has been observed during system boot on Rb3Gen2.

CVSS metrics

4 scores · 4 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.16%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

6%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

No change 0.00 pp

From 0.16% 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.

Ubuntu147 products
  • linuxAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 5.15.0-163.173 | < 6.8.0-100.100
  • linux-allwinner-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-awsAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 5.15.0-1097.104 | < 6.8.0-1046.49
  • linux-aws-5.0All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws-5.11All versions (No fix recorded)
Debian2 products
  • linux< 6.1.153-1 | < 6.12.48-1 | < 6.16.5-1
  • debian_linuxEOL11.0
Linux2 products
  • linux≥ af2c3834c8ca7cc65d15592ac671933df8848115, < 18c2b2bd982b8546312c9a7895515672169f28e0 | ≥ af2c3834c8ca7cc65d15592ac671933df8848115, < 88cf63c2599761c48dec8f618d57dccf8f6f4b53 | ≥ af2c3834c8ca7cc65d15592ac671933df8848115, < 9db6a78bc5e418e0064e2248c8f3b9b9e8418646 | ≥ af2c3834c8ca7cc65d15592ac671933df8848115, < 37cc0ac889b018097c217c5929fd6dc2aed636a1 | ≥ af2c3834c8ca7cc65d15592ac671933df8848115, < f54be97bc69b1096198b6717c150dec69f2a1b4d | ≥ af2c3834c8ca7cc65d15592ac671933df8848115, < 639eb587f977c02423f4762467055b23902b4131 | ≥ af2c3834c8ca7cc65d15592ac671933df8848115, < e796028b4835af00d9a38ebbb208ec3a6634702a | ≥ af2c3834c8ca7cc65d15592ac671933df8848115, < 3200144a2fa4209dc084a19941b9b203b43580f0 | 4.13
  • linux_kernel≥ 4.13, < 5.4.297 | ≥ 5.5, < 5.10.241 | ≥ 5.11, < 5.15.190 | ≥ 5.16, < 6.1.149 | ≥ 6.2, < 6.6.103 | ≥ 6.7, < 6.12.44 | ≥ 6.13, < 6.16.4

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