CVE-2025-40029 json
bus: fsl-mc: Check return value of platform_get_resource()
published 2025-10-28 12 mo ago modified 2026-10-19 20 d ago also EUVD-2025-36499
- cvss
- —
- not scored
- cisa kev
- Not listed
- not in CISA's catalog
- epss
- 0.2%
- EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 12%
- public exploits
- 0
- none known
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
bus: fsl-mc: Check return value of platform_get_resource()
platform_get_resource() returns NULL in case of failure, so check its return value and propagate the error in order to prevent NULL pointer dereference.
Patch / fix
- Linux Linux 5.10.246, 5.15.195, 6.1.156, 6.6.112, 6.12.53, 6.17.3, 6.18
- linux Debian 12 6.1.158-1
- linux Debian 13 6.12.57-1
- linux Debian 14 6.17.6-1
debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2025-40029
- linux Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-170.180
- linux Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-106.106
- linux Ubuntu 25.10 6.17.0-14.14
- linux-aws Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1100.107
- linux-aws Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1050.53
- linux-aws Ubuntu 25.10 6.17.0-1007.7
- linux-gcp Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1100.109
- linux-gcp Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1052.55
ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2025-40029
Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0
- kernel-rt Real Time Module 15 SP6, openSUSE Leap 15.6 6.4.0-150600.10.58.1
- kernel-syms-rt Real Time Module 15 SP6, openSUSE Leap 15.6 6.4.0-150600.10.58.1
- kernel-rt_debug Real Time Module 15 SP6, openSUSE Leap 15.6 6.4.0-150600.10.58.1
- kernel-source-rt Real Time Module 15 SP6, openSUSE Leap 15.6 6.4.0-150600.10.58.1
- kernel-rt Linux Micro 6.2 6.12.0-160000.7.1
- kernel-64kb SLES 16.0, Linux Micro 6.2, SLES for SAP applications 16.0 6.12.0-160000.7.1
- kernel-source SLES 16.0, Linux Micro 6.2, SLES for SAP applications 16.0 6.12.0-160000.7.1
- kernel-default SLES 16.0, SLE High Availability Extension 16.0, Linux Micro 6.2 +1 more 6.12.0-160000.7.1
suse advisories SUSE-SU-2025:4301-1SUSE-SU-2025:21080-1SUSE-SU-2025:21147-1SUSE-SU-2025:21180-1SUSE-SU-2026:20561-1SUSE-SU-2025:21052-1
- kernel-source-longterm openSUSE Tumbleweed 6.18.16-1.1
- kernel-rt openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.7.1
- dtb-aarch64 openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.7.1
- kernel-64kb openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.7.1
- kernel-syms openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.7.1
- kernel-obs-qa openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.7.1
- kernel-source openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.7.1
- kernel-default openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.7.1
opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:10301-1openSUSE-SU-2025:20091-1openSUSE-SU-2025:15702-1
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/58dd05070b57a20f22ff35a34ef9846bdf49a1d0 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/8a4dd74fe413d4a278e649be1d22d028e1667116 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/e60d55692e6c8e951000343c39f3fc92cab57efc commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/78e87b8a3cf8a59671ea25c87192d16e8d710e1c commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/84ec0482ed9c9ed0aee553a5e7e7458ad79c021f commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/2ead548473f58c7960b6b939b79503c4a0a2c0bd commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/25f526507b8ccc6ac3a43bc094d09b1f9b0b90ae commit
Vendor advisories
What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.
red hat product security vex CVE-2025-40029 updated cvss 5.5
kernel: bus: fsl-mc: Check return value of platform_get_resource()
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 kernelaffected: no fix available
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, python-perf, kernel-kdump, +8 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, kernel-core, kernel-tools, +29 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 rv, perf, rtla, kernel, bpftool, libperf, +83 morenot affected: vulnerable code not present
Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf
Exploit prediction
0.22% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 12% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).
Affected products
- Linux Linux
Classification
- Technology feeds
References
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/58dd05070b57a20f22ff35a34ef9846bdf49a1d0
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/8a4dd74fe413d4a278e649be1d22d028e1667116
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/e60d55692e6c8e951000343c39f3fc92cab57efc
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/78e87b8a3cf8a59671ea25c87192d16e8d710e1c
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/84ec0482ed9c9ed0aee553a5e7e7458ad79c021f
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/2ead548473f58c7960b6b939b79503c4a0a2c0bd
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/25f526507b8ccc6ac3a43bc094d09b1f9b0b90ae
Sources
- CVE List CVE-2025-40029
- NVD CVE-2025-40029
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