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CVE-2025-37971

staging: bcm2835-camera: Initialise dev in v4l2_dev PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: staging: bcm2835-camera: Initialise dev in v4l2_dev Commit 42a2f6664e18 ("staging: vc04_services: Move global g_state to vchiq_state") changed mmal_init to pass dev->v4l2_dev.dev to vchiq_mmal_init, however nothing iniitialised dev->v4l2_dev, so we got a NULL pointer dereference. Set dev->v4l2_dev.dev during bcm2835_mmal_probe. The device pointer could be passed into v4l2_device_register to set it, however that also has other effects that would need additional changes.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected 42a2f6664e18874302623f31edef545ef41e1d14 before 06753f49336ab161ea0e249a0720125b81b7b31b; affected 42a2f6664e18874302623f31edef545ef41e1d14 before b70bdd4923e8b8edbacde2af83ca337bb7005261; affected 42a2f6664e18874302623f31edef545ef41e1d14 before 98698ca0e58734bc5c1c24e5bbc7429f981cd186
Linux / Linuxaffected 6.10; unaffected 0 before 6.10; unaffected 6.12.29 through 6.12.*; unaffected 6.14.7 through 6.14.*; unaffected 6.15 through *

CWE

No CWE identifiers supplied.

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