{"id":"CVE-2025-22078","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2025-22078","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T06:14:46.214Z","title":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: staging: vchiq_arm: Fix possible NPR of keep-alive thread In case vchiq_platform_conn_state_changed() is never called or fails before driver removal, ka_thread won't be a valid pointer…","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nstaging: vchiq_arm: Fix possible NPR of keep-alive thread\n\nIn case vchiq_platform_conn_state_changed() is never called or fails before\ndriver removal, ka_thread won't be a valid pointer to a task_struct. So\ndo the necessary checks before calling kthread_stop to avoid a crash.","published":"2025-04-16T15:16:02.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T08:45:00.000Z","status":"Analyzed","sourceIdentifier":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":5.5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":[],"affected":["linux/linux kernel"],"epss":{"score":0.00201,"percentile":0.09941,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.20%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1817c4b85011998604e5ff9a80a6e01adb7e7e81","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3db89bc6d973e2bcaa852f6409c98c228f39a926","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a915c896f95a989a7759a73f8c064f5dc3775175","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bd38395b901327f77a82112f006240de22cf2ceb","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-22078","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}