CVE-2025-37971

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference

Publication date:

20/05/2025

Last modified:

14/11/2025

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: staging: bcm2835-camera: Initialise dev in v4l2_dev Commit 42a2f6664e18 ("staging: vc04_services: Move global g_state to vchiq_state") changed mmal_init to pass dev->v4l2_dev.dev to vchiq_mmal_init, however nothing iniitialised dev->v4l2_dev, so we got a NULL pointer dereference. Set dev->v4l2_dev.dev during bcm2835_mmal_probe. The device pointer could be passed into v4l2_device_register to set it, however that also has other effects that would need additional changes.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.50 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): Low
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x

5.50

Severity 3.x

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	6.10 (including)	6.12.29 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	6.13 (including)	6.14.7 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.15:rc1::::::
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.15:rc2::::::
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.15:rc3::::::
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.15:rc4::::::
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.15:rc5::::::

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

CVE-2025-37971

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

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