CVE Catalog

CVE-2025-39708

MediumCVSS 5.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.13%

2th percentile - higher than 2% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel media: iris driver, smatch reported a possible NULL pointer dereference because one argument to iris_hfi_gen2_handle_system_error may be NULL. The fix adds a check to validate the argument is not NULL before accessing its members.

Risk Assessment

A possible NULL pointer dereference in the media iris driver may cause a kernel crash and unavailability of multimedia functions on affected platforms.

Recommendation

Update the Linux kernel to a version containing the fix, especially on platforms using the media iris driver.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: iris: Fix NULL pointer dereference A warning reported by smatch indicated a possible null pointer dereference where one of the arguments to API "iris_hfi_gen2_handle_system_error" could sometimes be null. To fix this, add a check to validate that the argument passed is not null before accessing its members.

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