CVE-2025-39755: staging: gpib: Fix cb7210 pcmcia Oops

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

staging: gpib: Fix cb7210 pcmcia Oops

The pcmcia_driver struct was still only using the old .name
initialization in the drv field. This led to a NULL pointer
deref Oops in strcmp called from pcmcia_register_driver.

Initialize the pcmcia_driver struct name field.

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2025-39755

Affected Products

Vendor: Linux

Product: Linux

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.02% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 2.53% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-04-18 (when was this score calculated)

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-39755
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7ec50077d7f6647cb6ba3a2a20a6c26f51259c7d
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c82ae06f49e70d1c14ee9c76c392345856d050c9
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c1baf6528bcfd6a86842093ff3f8ff8caf309c12

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