CVE-2025-39709: media: venus: protect against spurious interrupts during probe
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.
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 46 · Related 40Timeline
- 05-09-2025PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 05-08-2026Last 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- 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
- NVDNIST5.5MediumCVSS: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
6%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
No change 0.00 pp
From 0.16% on 04-10-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogsNot in the CISA KEV catalog.
Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.
Not 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.
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
3 vendors · 151 products
References
41 links- lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00008.htmlThird Party Advisory
- lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00007.htmlThird Party Advisory