{"id":"CVE-2025-38635","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2025-38635","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T07:25:34.812Z","title":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: clk: davinci: Add NULL check in davinci_lpsc_clk_register() devm_kasprintf() returns NULL when memory allocation fails.","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nclk: davinci: Add NULL check in davinci_lpsc_clk_register()\n\ndevm_kasprintf() returns NULL when memory allocation fails. Currently,\ndavinci_lpsc_clk_register() does not check for this case, which results\nin a NULL pointer dereference.\n\nAdd NULL check after devm_kasprintf() to prevent this issue and ensuring\nno resources are left allocated.","published":"2025-08-22T16:15:37.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T09:17:16.000Z","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":["CWE-476"],"affected":["linux/linux kernel","debian/debian linux"],"epss":{"score":0.00181,"percentile":0.07645,"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 (0.18%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/105e8115944a9f93e9412abe7bb07ed96725adf9","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/13de464f445d42738fe18c9a28bab056ba3a290a","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1d92608a29251278015f57f3572bc950db7519f0","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/23f564326deaafacfd7adf6104755b15216d8320","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2adc945b70c4d97e9491a6c0c9f3b217a9eecfba","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6fb19cdcf040e1dec052a9032acb66cc2ad1d43f","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/77e9ad7a2d0e2a771c9e0be04b9d1639413b5f13","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7843412e5927dafbb844782c56b6380564064109","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7943ed1f05f5cb7372dca2aa227f848747a98791","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00007.html","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00008.html","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-38635","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."}