CVE-2025-21982: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: pinctrl: nuvoton: npcm8xx: Add NULL check in npcm8xx_gpio_fw devm_kasprintf() calls can return null pointers on failure. But the return values were not checked in npcm8xx_gpio_fw(). Add NULL check in npcm8xx_gpio_fw(), to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference error.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 6.7, before 6.12.20 (fixed in 6.12.20); from 6.13, before 6.13.8 (fixed in 6.13.8); version 6.14 only

Published 2025-04-01. Last modified 2026-06-17.