CVE-2025-40162: linux

CVSS: UnknownDeferred
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2025-40162DEBIAN-CVE-2025-40162
Published 12-11-2025Last modified 11-05-2026
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2025-40162 is a vulnerability in linux with no CVSS score yet. EPSS estimates a 0.20% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 8.8% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
0/100
0100
Minimal · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
Not scored
010
No CVSS score recorded
EPSS score
0.20%
0%100%
Low · +0.01 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 10 · Related 10
OPENSUSE-SU-2025:20172-1SUSE-SU-2026:20012-1SUSE-SU-2026:20015-1SUSE-SU-2026:20021-1SUSE-SU-2026:20562-1USN-8029-1

Timeline

  1. 12-11-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 11-05-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ASoC: amd/sdw_utils: avoid NULL deref when devm_kasprintf() fails devm_kasprintf() may return NULL on memory allocation failure, but the debug message prints cpus->dai_name before checking it. Move the dev_dbg() call after the NULL check to prevent potential NULL pointer dereference.

CVSS metrics

Risk metrics not yet published.

EPSS trend

Probability

0.20%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

9%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

+0.01 pp

From 0.18% on 21-09-2026

21-09-202621-10-2026
EPSS score
0.20%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

No weakness data has been published for this record.

Affected systems

Ubuntu103 products
  • linux< 6.17.0-14.14
  • linux-allwinner-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws< 6.17.0-1007.7
  • linux-aws-5.0All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws-5.11All versions (No fix recorded)
Debian1 product
  • linux< 6.12.57-1 | < 6.17.6-1
Linux1 product
  • linux≥ cb8ea62e6402067ba092d4c1d66a9440513a572b, < 095d692e5997ece300c89f10d903d5230090e6a0 | ≥ cb8ea62e6402067ba092d4c1d66a9440513a572b, < a1cccbd19676fc36854535a7118ba2c27d0b84b3 | ≥ cb8ea62e6402067ba092d4c1d66a9440513a572b, < 5726b68473f7153a7f6294185e5998b7e2a230a2 | 6.12

3 vendors · 105 products

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