Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Apr 1, 2025· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2025-21982

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.

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Affected products

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- (no CPE)
- (no CPE)range: 6.7
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pkg:linux/kernel
Range: >= 6.7.0, < 6.12.20

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References

git.kernel.org/stable/c/6a08a86e5aff8e65368ccd463348fdda26100821nvdPatch
git.kernel.org/stable/c/a585f6ea42ec259a9a57e3e2580fa527c92187d0nvdPatch
git.kernel.org/stable/c/acf40ab42799e4ae1397ee6f5c5941092d66f999nvdPatch

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