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CVE-2025-40098 json

ALSA: hda: cs35l41: Fix NULL pointer dereference in cs35l41_get_acpi_mute_state()

published 2025-10-30 12 mo ago modified 2026-10-19 20 d ago also EUVD-2025-36980

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 9%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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

ALSA: hda: cs35l41: Fix NULL pointer dereference in cs35l41_get_acpi_mute_state()

Return value of a function acpi_evaluate_dsm() is dereferenced without checking for NULL, but it is usually checked for this function.

acpi_evaluate_dsm() may return NULL, when acpi_evaluate_object() returns acpi_status other than ACPI_SUCCESS, so add a check to prevent the crach.

Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.

Patch / fix

  • Linux Linux 6.12.101, 6.17.5, 6.18
  • linux Debian 13 6.12.101-1
  • linux Debian 14 6.17.6-1
  • linux-6.12 Debian 12 6.12.101-1~deb12u1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2025-40098

  • linux Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-147.147
  • linux Ubuntu 25.10 6.17.0-14.14
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1067.70
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 25.10 6.17.0-1007.7
  • linux-gcp Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1071.79
  • linux-gcp Ubuntu 25.10 6.17.0-1007.7
  • linux-gke Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1066.74
  • linux-ibm Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1067.68

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2025-40098

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-source Linux Micro 6.1, Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-38.1
  • kernel-default Linux Micro 6.1, Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-38.1
  • kernel-kvmsmall Linux Micro 6.1, Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-38.1
  • kernel-default-base Linux Micro 6.1, Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-38.1.21.15
  • kernel-rt Linux Micro 6.1, Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-39.1
  • kernel-source-rt Linux Micro 6.1, Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-39.1
  • kernel-rt Real Time Module 15 SP6, openSUSE Leap 15.6 6.4.0-150600.10.61.1
  • kernel-syms-rt Real Time Module 15 SP6, openSUSE Leap 15.6 6.4.0-150600.10.61.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2026:20473-1SUSE-SU-2026:20496-1SUSE-SU-2026:20039-1SUSE-SU-2026:20059-1SUSE-SU-2025:4521-1SUSE-SU-2025:4517-1

  • kernel-source-longterm openSUSE Tumbleweed 6.18.16-1.1
  • kernel-rt openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.8.1
  • dtb-aarch64 openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.8.1
  • kernel-64kb openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.8.1
  • kernel-syms openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.8.1
  • kernel-obs-qa openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.8.1
  • kernel-source openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.8.1
  • kernel-default openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.8.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:10301-1openSUSE-SU-2025:20172-1openSUSE-SU-2025:15702-1

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-2025-40098 updated

kernel: ALSA: hda: cs35l41: Fix NULL pointer dereference in cs35l41_get_acpi_mute_state()

  • 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 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 kernel
    not 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

0.20% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 9% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Affected products

  • Linux Linux

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