CVE-2025-21982 – “NuvoTon Npcm8xx Linux Kernel Null Pointer Dereference”

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CVE-2025-21982 vulnerability over time.

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  • New CVE Received
    by 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67

    Apr. 01, 2025

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Description In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    pinctrl: nuvoton: npcm8xx: Add NULL check in npcm8xx_gpio_fw

    devm_kasprintf() calls can return null pointers on failure.
    But the return values were not checked in npcm8xx_gpio_fw().
    Add NULL check in npcm8xx_gpio_fw(), to handle kernel NULL
    pointer dereference error.

    Added Reference https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6a08a86e5aff8e65368ccd463348fdda26100821
    Added Reference https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a585f6ea42ec259a9a57e3e2580fa527c92187d0
    Added Reference https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/acf40ab42799e4ae1397ee6f5c5941092d66f999
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