CVE Catalog

CVE-2025-39705

MediumCVSS 5.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.20%

9th percentile - higher than 9% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel drm/amd/display DC module, a NULL check was added before dereferencing dc->ctx->perf_trace in dc_destruct(). Previously a failed allocation led to a NULL pointer dereference and kernel crash.

Risk Assessment

A kernel crash (NULL pointer dereference) may occur during display initialization error handling. Affects systems with AMD GPUs.

Recommendation

Update the Linux kernel to a patched version.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/amd/display: fix a Null pointer dereference vulnerability [Why] A null pointer dereference vulnerability exists in the AMD display driver's (DC module) cleanup function dc_destruct(). When display control context (dc->ctx) construction fails (due to memory allocation failure), this pointer remains NULL. During subsequent error handling when dc_destruct() is called, there's no NULL check before dereferencing the perf_trace member (dc->ctx->perf_trace), causing a kernel null pointer dereference crash. [How] Check if dc->ctx is non-NULL before dereferencing. (Updated commit text and removed unnecessary error message) (cherry picked from commit 9dd8e2ba268c636c240a918e0a31e6feaee19404)

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