Upstream information

CVE-2025-40011 at MITRE

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: New

This issue is currently rated as having not set severity.

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1252336 [NEW]

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SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Mon Oct 20 20:00:21 2025
CVE page last modified: Tue Oct 21 01:55:16 2025