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CVE-2025-38609

PM / devfreq: Check governor before using governor->name PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: PM / devfreq: Check governor before using governor->name Commit 96ffcdf239de ("PM / devfreq: Remove redundant governor_name from struct devfreq") removes governor_name and uses governor->name to replace it. But devfreq->governor may be NULL and directly using devfreq->governor->name may cause null pointer exception. Move the check of governor to before using governor->name.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected 96ffcdf239de6f9970178bb7d643e16fd9e68ab9 before f0479e878d4beb45e73c03e574c59f0a23ccd176; affected 96ffcdf239de6f9970178bb7d643e16fd9e68ab9 before 631e101728df2a86b8fb761b49fad9712c651f8a; affected 96ffcdf239de6f9970178bb7d643e16fd9e68ab9 before 81f50619370045120c133bfdda5b320c8c97d41e; affected 96ffcdf239de6f9970178bb7d643e16fd9e68ab9 before d5632359dbc44862fc1ed04093c1f57529830261; affected 96ffcdf239de6f9970178bb7d643e16fd9e68ab9 before 2731c68f536fddcb71332db7f8d78c5eb4684c04; affected 96ffcdf239de6f9970178bb7d643e16fd9e68ab9 before 75323a49aa603cf5484a6d74d0d329e86d756e11; affected 96ffcdf239de6f9970178bb7d643e16fd9e68ab9 before bab7834c03820eb11269bc48f07c3800192460d2
Linux / Linuxaffected 5.11; unaffected 0 before 5.11; unaffected 5.15.190 through 5.15.*; unaffected 6.1.148 through 6.1.*; unaffected 6.6.102 through 6.6.*; unaffected 6.12.42 through 6.12.*; unaffected 6.15.10 through 6.15.*; unaffected 6.16.1 through 6.16.*; unaffected 6.17 through *

CWE

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