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CVE-2025-21982

kernel: pinctrl: nuvoton: npcm8xx: Add NULL check in npcm8xx_gpio_fw

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

5.5

CVSS 3.1

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Published · April 1, 2025

Updated · June 30, 2026

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

pinctrl: nuvoton: npcm8xx: Add NULL check in npcm8xx_gpio_fw

devm_kasprintf() calls can return null pointers on failure. But the return values were not checked in npcm8xx_gpio_fw(). Add NULL check in npcm8xx_gpio_fw(), to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference error.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 5.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE-476 · NULL Pointer Dereference