CVE-2025-39705 (GCVE-0-2025-39705)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-09-05 17:21 – Updated: 2026-10-21 12:37
VLAI
Title
drm/amd/display: fix a Null pointer dereference vulnerability
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/amd/display: fix a Null pointer dereference vulnerability [Why] A null pointer dereference vulnerability exists in the AMD display driver's (DC module) cleanup function dc_destruct(). When display control context (dc->ctx) construction fails (due to memory allocation failure), this pointer remains NULL. During subsequent error handling when dc_destruct() is called, there's no NULL check before dereferencing the perf_trace member (dc->ctx->perf_trace), causing a kernel null pointer dereference crash. [How] Check if dc->ctx is non-NULL before dereferencing. (Updated commit text and removed unnecessary error message) (cherry picked from commit 9dd8e2ba268c636c240a918e0a31e6feaee19404)
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Assigner
Linux CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 7034 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 4562236b3bc0a28aeb6ee93b2d8a849a4c4e1c7c , < 0d9f4f202de1522aadc7a827aba0ae92b3d70937 (git)
Affected: 4562236b3bc0a28aeb6ee93b2d8a849a4c4e1c7c , < 0961673cc5f0055957aa46f25eb4ef6c07e00165 (git)
Affected: 4562236b3bc0a28aeb6ee93b2d8a849a4c4e1c7c , < 4ade995b9b25b3c6e8dc42c27070340f1358d8c8 (git)
Affected: 4562236b3bc0a28aeb6ee93b2d8a849a4c4e1c7c , < 1bcf63a44381691d6192872801f830ce3250e367 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 4.15
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.15 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.160 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.44 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.16.4 , ≤ 6.16.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.17 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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