CVE-2025-37830 (GCVE-0-2025-37830)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-05-08 06:26 – Updated: 2026-05-11 21:15
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
cpufreq: scmi: Fix null-ptr-deref in scmi_cpufreq_get_rate()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
cpufreq: scmi: Fix null-ptr-deref in scmi_cpufreq_get_rate()
cpufreq_cpu_get_raw() can return NULL when the target CPU is not present
in the policy->cpus mask. scmi_cpufreq_get_rate() does not check for
this case, which results in a NULL pointer dereference.
Add NULL check after cpufreq_cpu_get_raw() to prevent this issue.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
Assigner
References
8 references
Impacted products
2 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
99d6bdf3387734d75e3e34e94a58b8a355b7a9c8 , < bd1dcfba72aac4159c1d5e17cd861e702e6c19ac
(git)
Affected: 99d6bdf3387734d75e3e34e94a58b8a355b7a9c8 , < 4e3d1c1925d8e752992cd893d03d974e6807ac16 (git) Affected: 99d6bdf3387734d75e3e34e94a58b8a355b7a9c8 , < f9c5423855e3687262d881aeee5cfb3bc8577bff (git) Affected: 99d6bdf3387734d75e3e34e94a58b8a355b7a9c8 , < ea834c90aa7cc80a1b456f7a91432734d5087d16 (git) Affected: 99d6bdf3387734d75e3e34e94a58b8a355b7a9c8 , < 7ccfadfb2562337b4f0462a86a9746a6eea89718 (git) Affected: 99d6bdf3387734d75e3e34e94a58b8a355b7a9c8 , < cfaca93b8fe317b7faa9af732e0ba8c9081fa018 (git) Affected: 99d6bdf3387734d75e3e34e94a58b8a355b7a9c8 , < 484d3f15cc6cbaa52541d6259778e715b2c83c54 (git) |
guessed | |
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
4.17
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.17 (semver) Unaffected: 5.10.248 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.15.181 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.1.136 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.6.89 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.12.26 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.14.5 , ≤ 6.14.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.15 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix) |
guessed |
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Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.
Sightings
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Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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