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CVE-2025-38705: drm/amd/pm: fix null pointer access

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-09-04 · updated 2026-10-30
• Weakness: CWE-476

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/amd/pm: fix null pointer access Writing a string without delimiters (' ', '\n', '\0') to the under gpu_od/fan_ctrl sysfs or pp_power_profile_mode for the CUSTOM profile will result in a null pointer dereference.

Affected products

• Linux kernel: before 6.12.43; from 6.13 before 6.15.11; from 6.16 before 6.16.2 — fixed in 6.12.43, 6.15.11, 6.16.2
• Linux: 4.17 — fixed in 6.17

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Linux kernel 6.12.43, 6.15.11, 6.16.2; Linux 6.17. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/29a15e06a3d41f60a73a8a0ad7847b11c55f61bf
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5d8cc029e5595760c7d18c64632e8e40a86a9b2e
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/61c643a4229c182fbfef0f93df2b2e6b79d37575
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a83ffafd02a7af59848755c109d544e3894af737
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cef79c18538e9ce2ca6e5b3fa95c38ec41dcd07a
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d524d40e3a6152a3ea1125af729f8cd8ca65efde

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