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CVE-2025-37841: pm: cpupower: bench: Prevent NULL dereference on malloc failure

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-05-09 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-476

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: pm: cpupower: bench: Prevent NULL dereference on malloc failure If malloc returns NULL due to low memory, 'config' pointer can be NULL. Add a check to prevent NULL dereference.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 11.0
• Linux kernel: before 5.4.293; from 5.5 before 5.10.237; from 5.11 before 5.15.181; from 5.16 before 6.1.135; from 6.2 before 6.6.88; from 6.7 before 6.12.24 — fixed in 5.10.237, 5.15.181, 5.4.293, 6.1.135, 6.12.24, 6.13.12

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Linux kernel 5.10.237, 5.15.181, 5.4.293, 6.1.135. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0e297a02e03dceb2874789ca40bd4e65c5371704
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/208baa3ec9043a664d9acfb8174b332e6b17fb69
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/34a9394794b0f97af6afedc0c9ee2012c24b28ed
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5e38122aa3fd0f9788186e86a677925bfec0b2d1
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/79bded9d70142d2a11d931fc029afece471641db
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/87b9f0867c0afa7e892f4b30c36cff6bf2707f85
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/942a4b97fc77516678b1d8af1521ff9a94c13b3e
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ceec06f464d5cfc0ba966225f7d50506ceb62242
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f8d28fa305b78c5d1073b63f26db265ba8291ae1
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00030.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00045.html

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