CVE-2025-71138 (GCVE-0-2025-71138)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-01-14 15:07 – Updated: 2026-01-14 15:07
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Title
drm/msm/dpu: Add missing NULL pointer check for pingpong interface
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/msm/dpu: Add missing NULL pointer check for pingpong interface It is checked almost always in dpu_encoder_phys_wb_setup_ctl(), but in a single place the check is missing. Also use convenient locals instead of phys_enc->* where available. Patchwork: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/693860/
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Linux Linux Affected: d7d0e73f7de33a2b9998b607707a3e944ef3b86d , < 678d1c86566dfbb247ba25482d37fddde6140cc9 (git)
Affected: d7d0e73f7de33a2b9998b607707a3e944ef3b86d , < 471baae774a30a04cf066907b60eaf3732928cb7 (git)
Affected: d7d0e73f7de33a2b9998b607707a3e944ef3b86d , < 35ea3282136a630a3fd92b76f5a3a02651145ef1 (git)
Affected: d7d0e73f7de33a2b9998b607707a3e944ef3b86d , < 88733a0b64872357e5ecd82b7488121503cb9cc6 (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 5.19
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.19 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.120 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.64 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.4 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.19-rc3 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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