CVE-2025-39807 (GCVE-0-2025-39807)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-09-16 13:00 – Updated: 2026-01-14 18:22
VLAI?
Title
drm/mediatek: Add error handling for old state CRTC in atomic_disable
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/mediatek: Add error handling for old state CRTC in atomic_disable Introduce error handling to address an issue where, after a hotplug event, the cursor continues to update. This situation can lead to a kernel panic due to accessing the NULL `old_state->crtc`. E,g. Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address Call trace: mtk_crtc_plane_disable+0x24/0x140 mtk_plane_atomic_update+0x8c/0xa8 drm_atomic_helper_commit_planes+0x114/0x2c8 drm_atomic_helper_commit_tail_rpm+0x4c/0x158 commit_tail+0xa0/0x168 drm_atomic_helper_commit+0x110/0x120 drm_atomic_commit+0x8c/0xe0 drm_atomic_helper_update_plane+0xd4/0x128 __setplane_atomic+0xcc/0x110 drm_mode_cursor_common+0x250/0x440 drm_mode_cursor_ioctl+0x44/0x70 drm_ioctl+0x264/0x5d8 __arm64_sys_ioctl+0xd8/0x510 invoke_syscall+0x6c/0xe0 do_el0_svc+0x68/0xe8 el0_svc+0x34/0x60 el0t_64_sync_handler+0x1c/0xf8 el0t_64_sync+0x180/0x188 Adding NULL pointer checks to ensure stability by preventing operations on an invalid CRTC state.
Severity ?
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-476 - NULL Pointer Dereference
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Linux Linux Affected: 40b5b4ba8ed87c0bfb6268c10589777652ebde4c , < 7d5cc22efa44e0fe321ce195c71c3d7da211fbb2 (git)
Affected: d208261e9f7c66960587b10473081dc1cecbe50b , < 9a94e9d8b50bcfe89693bc899a54d3866d86e973 (git)
Affected: d208261e9f7c66960587b10473081dc1cecbe50b , < 0c6b24d70da21201ed009a2aca740d2dfddc7ab5 (git)
Affected: a9c482689051ca96f4a4630fe49fd6919694caaa (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 6.16
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.16 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.45 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.16.5 , ≤ 6.16.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.17 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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