CVE-2025-37841
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pm: cpupower: bench: Prevent NULL dereference on malloc failure
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: pm: cpupower: bench: Prevent NULL dereference on malloc failure If malloc returns NULL due to low memory, 'config' pointer can be NULL. Add a check to prevent NULL dereference.
Exploit probability
0.3%
Published
May 9, 2025
Required by
Not available
Last source change
August 12, 2026
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
Open Source Vulnerabilities
CVE-2025-37841
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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: pm: cpupower: bench: Prevent NULL dereference on malloc failure If malloc returns NULL due to low memory, 'config' pointer can be NULL. Add a check to prevent NULL dereference.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0e297a02e03dceb2874789ca40bd4e65c5371704
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/208baa3ec9043a664d9acfb8174b332e6b17fb69
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/34a9394794b0f97af6afedc0c9ee2012c24b28ed
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5e38122aa3fd0f9788186e86a677925bfec0b2d1
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/79bded9d70142d2a11d931fc029afece471641db
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/87b9f0867c0afa7e892f4b30c36cff6bf2707f85
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/942a4b97fc77516678b1d8af1521ff9a94c13b3e
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ceec06f464d5cfc0ba966225f7d50506ceb62242
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f8d28fa305b78c5d1073b63f26db265ba8291ae1
- https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/37xxx/CVE-2025-37841.json
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00030.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00045.html
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-37841