CVE-2025-38630

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference

Publication date:

22/08/2025

Last modified:

07/01/2026

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fbdev: imxfb: Check fb_add_videomode to prevent null-ptr-deref fb_add_videomode() can fail with -ENOMEM when its internal kmalloc() cannot allocate a struct fb_modelist. If that happens, the modelist stays empty but the driver continues to register. Add a check for its return value to prevent poteintial null-ptr-deref, which is similar to the commit 17186f1f90d3 ("fbdev: Fix do_register_framebuffer to prevent null-ptr-deref in fb_videomode_to_var").

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::::::::	3.11 (including)	5.4.297 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.5 (including)	5.10.241 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.11 (including)	5.15.190 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.16 (including)	6.1.148 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	6.2 (including)	6.6.102 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	6.7 (including)	6.12.42 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	6.13 (including)	6.15.10 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	6.16 (including)	6.16.1 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:11.0:::::::*

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CVE-2025-38630

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

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