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CVE-2025-40085 (GCVE-0-2025-40085)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-29 13:37 – Updated: 2026-05-23 16:01
VLAI
Title
ALSA: usb-audio: Fix NULL pointer deference in try_to_register_card
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: usb-audio: Fix NULL pointer deference in try_to_register_card In try_to_register_card(), the return value of usb_ifnum_to_if() is passed directly to usb_interface_claimed() without a NULL check, which will lead to a NULL pointer dereference when creating an invalid USB audio device. Fix this by adding a check to ensure the interface pointer is valid before passing it to usb_interface_claimed().
Severity
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Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 28787ff9fbeaf57684eb64cc33e2ec8ceedf21b5 , < 736159f7b296d7a95f7208eb4799639b1f8b16a0 (git)
Affected: 39efc9c8a973ddff5918191525d1679d0fb368ea , < 8d19a7ab28c7b9c207db5c5282afa8cc8595bcdb (git)
Affected: 39efc9c8a973ddff5918191525d1679d0fb368ea , < 576312eb436326b44b7010f4d9ae2b698df075ea (git)
Affected: 39efc9c8a973ddff5918191525d1679d0fb368ea , < bba7208765d26e5e36b87f21dacc2780b064f41f (git)
Affected: 39efc9c8a973ddff5918191525d1679d0fb368ea , < 8503ac1a62075a085402e42a386b5c627c821a51 (git)
Affected: 39efc9c8a973ddff5918191525d1679d0fb368ea , < 28412b489b088fb88dff488305fd4e56bd47f6e4 (git)
Affected: 9d4f4dc3cd38e412c29a7626489fe48b79ebbf6c (git)
Affected: 52076a41c128146c9df4a157e972cb17019313b1 (git)
Affected: 5.15.75 , < 5.15.196 (semver)
Affected: 5.19.17 , < 5.20 (semver)
Affected: 6.0.3 , < 6.1 (semver)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.1
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.1 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.196 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.158 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.114 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.55 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.17.5 , ≤ 6.17.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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