CVE-2025-37829
kernel: cpufreq: scpi: Fix null-ptr-deref in scpi_cpufreq_get_rate()
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.1
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Published · May 8, 2025
Updated · June 30, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
cpufreq: scpi: Fix null-ptr-deref in scpi_cpufreq_get_rate()
cpufreq_cpu_get_raw() can return NULL when the target CPU is not present in the policy->cpus mask. scpi_cpufreq_get_rate() does not check for this case, which results in a NULL pointer dereference.
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.1 · 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE-476 · NULL Pointer Dereference