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Debian: CVE-2025-23146: linux, linux-6.1 -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
May 1, 2025
Added
May 5, 2025
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

mfd: ene-kb3930: Fix a potential NULL pointer dereference

The off_gpios could be NULL. Add missing check in the kb3930_probe().
This is similar to the issue fixed in commit b1ba8bcb2d1f
("backlight: hx8357: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference").

This was detected by our static analysis tool.

Solutions

debian-upgrade-linuxdebian-upgrade-linux-6-1
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