CVSS 3.1
5.5 mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCVE-2025-38609
Medium (5.5). EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
PM / devfreq: Check governor before using governor->name
Commit 96ffcdf239de ("PM / devfreq: Remove redundant governor_name from
struct devfreq") removes governor_name and uses governor->name to replace
it. But devfreq->governor may be NULL and directly using
devfreq->governor->name may cause null pointer exception. Move the check of
governor to before using governor->name.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 5% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-476
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- debian:debian_linux
- linux:linux_kernel
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2731c68f536fddcb71332db7f8d78c5eb4684c04
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/631e101728df2a86b8fb761b49fad9712c651f8a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/75323a49aa603cf5484a6d74d0d329e86d756e11
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/81f50619370045120c133bfdda5b320c8c97d41e
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bab7834c03820eb11269bc48f07c3800192460d2