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CVE-2025-38630

kernel: fbdev: imxfb: Check fb_add_videomode to prevent null-ptr-deref

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Severity

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Red Hat Product Security

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CVSS

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Published · August 22, 2025

Updated · June 30, 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").

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

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