Medium 5.5Published Sep 5, 2025

CVE-2025-39708media: iris: Fix NULL pointer dereference

Updated under an hour ago (Oct 27, 2026, 7:40 AM ET)

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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: iris: Fix NULL pointer dereference A warning reported by smatch indicated a possible null pointer dereference where one of the arguments to API "iris_hfi_gen2_handle_system_error" could sometimes be null. To fix this, add a check to validate that the argument passed is not null before accessing its members.

CVSS: 5.5 MEDIUM (v3.1, NVD)CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness (CWE): Not given
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: Linux
NVD analysis: Analyzed
Record last updated: May 11, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 19, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

Linux Linux linux:linux (from the name)	from fb583a214337a5600c121c9e1eecbb57fa9db688 before 992ddee3c0da5f113ba86892ace467c1ac645538; from fb583a214337a5600c121c9e1eecbb57fa9db688 before 0f837559ccdd275c5a059e6ac4d5034b03409f1d	CNA record
linux linux_kernel linux:linux_kernel	from 6.15 before 6.16.4	NVD

References

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/992ddee3c0da5f113ba86892ace467c1ac645538	patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0f837559ccdd275c5a059e6ac4d5034b03409f1d	patch

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