Description

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.

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2025-37841

Affected Products

Vendor: Linux

Product: Linux

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.04% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 12.8% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-06-07 (when was this score calculated)

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-37841
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/34a9394794b0f97af6afedc0c9ee2012c24b28ed
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/79bded9d70142d2a11d931fc029afece471641db
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0e297a02e03dceb2874789ca40bd4e65c5371704
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/87b9f0867c0afa7e892f4b30c36cff6bf2707f85
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/942a4b97fc77516678b1d8af1521ff9a94c13b3e
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f8d28fa305b78c5d1073b63f26db265ba8291ae1
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ceec06f464d5cfc0ba966225f7d50506ceb62242
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5e38122aa3fd0f9788186e86a677925bfec0b2d1
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/208baa3ec9043a664d9acfb8174b332e6b17fb69

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