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LIN1023-14558 : Security Advisory - linux - CVE-2025-38630

Created: Aug 24, 2025    Updated: Aug 26, 2025
Found In Version: 10.23.30.1
Severity: Standard
Applicable for: Wind River Linux LTS 23
Component/s: Kernel

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:EOL][EOL]fbdev: imxfb: Check fb_add_videomode to prevent null-ptr-deref[EOL][EOL]fb_add_videomode() can fail with -ENOMEM when its internal kmalloc() cannot[EOL]allocate a struct fb_modelist.  If that happens, the modelist stays empty but[EOL]the driver continues to register.  Add a check for its return value to prevent[EOL]poteintial null-ptr-deref, which is similar to the commit 17186f1f90d3 ("fbdev:[EOL]Fix do_register_framebuffer to prevent null-ptr-deref in fb_videomode_to_var").

CREATE(Triage):(User=pbi-cn) [CVE-2025-38630 (https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-38630)
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