vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2025-39705

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Sep 5, 2025
Added
Oct 17, 2025
Modified
Oct 23, 2025

Description

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

drm/amd/display: fix a Null pointer dereference vulnerability

[Why]
A null pointer dereference vulnerability exists in the AMD display driver's
(DC module) cleanup function dc_destruct().
When display control context (dc->ctx) construction fails
(due to memory allocation failure), this pointer remains NULL.
During subsequent error handling when dc_destruct() is called,
there's no NULL check before dereferencing the perf_trace member
(dc->ctx->perf_trace), causing a kernel null pointer dereference crash.

[How]
Check if dc->ctx is non-NULL before dereferencing.

(Updated commit text and removed unnecessary error message)
(cherry picked from commit 9dd8e2ba268c636c240a918e0a31e6feaee19404)

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
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