CVE-2025-21798 (GCVE-0-2025-21798)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-02-27 20:00
Modified
2025-05-04 07:21
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Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: firewire: test: Fix potential null dereference in firewire kunit test kunit_kzalloc() may return a NULL pointer, dereferencing it without NULL check may lead to NULL dereference. Add a NULL check for test_state.
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Linux Linux Version: 1c8506d62624fbc57db75414a387f365da8422e9
Version: 1c8506d62624fbc57db75414a387f365da8422e9
Version: 1c8506d62624fbc57db75414a387f365da8422e9
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