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CVE-2025-40224

N/A CVSS: N/A Published: 2025-12-04 Modified: 2026-06-17

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: hwmon: (cgbc-hwmon) Add missing NULL check after devm_kzalloc() The driver allocates memory for sensor data using devm_kzalloc(), but did not check if the allocation succeeded. In case of memory allocation failure, dereferencing the NULL pointer would lead to a kernel crash. Add a NULL pointer check and return -ENOMEM to handle allocation failure properly.

Affected Platforms

Unknown

Weakness Type

Unknown

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