CVE-2025-40011
kernel: drm/gma500: Fix null dereference in hdmi teardown
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.1
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Published · October 20, 2025
Updated · June 30, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/gma500: Fix null dereference in hdmi teardown
pci_set_drvdata sets the value of pdev->driver_data to NULL, after which the driver_data obtained from the same dev is dereferenced in oaktrail_hdmi_i2c_exit, and the i2c_dev is extracted from it. To prevent this, swap these calls.
Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with Svacer.
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.1 · 4.7CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE-476 · NULL Pointer Dereference