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CVE-2025-40234

platform/x86: alienware-wmi-wmax: Fix NULL pointer dereference in sleep handlers PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: platform/x86: alienware-wmi-wmax: Fix NULL pointer dereference in sleep handlers Devices without the AWCC interface don't initialize `awcc`. Add a check before dereferencing it in sleep handlers.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected 07ac275981b1f11a58dd7bb7790eed66252b072c before 24c3812c9e817d19e4842d7495561594de1ddcb4; affected 07ac275981b1f11a58dd7bb7790eed66252b072c before a49c4d48c3b60926e6a8cec217bf95aa65388ecc
Linux / Linuxaffected 6.16; unaffected 0 before 6.16; unaffected 6.17.6 through 6.17.*; unaffected 6.18 through *

CWE

No CWE identifiers supplied.

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