CVE-2025-37801: 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: spi: spi-imx: Add check for spi_imx_setupxfer() Add check for the return value of spi_imx_setupxfer(). spi_imx->rx and spi_imx->tx function pointer can be NULL when spi_imx_setupxfer() return error, and make NULL pointer dereference. Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000000 Call trace: 0x0 spi_imx_pio_transfer+0x50/0xd8 spi_imx_transfer_one+0x18c/0x858 spi_transfer_one_message+0x43c/0x790 __spi_pump_transfer_message+0x238/0x5d4 __spi_sync+0x2b0/0x454 spi_write_then_read+0x11c/0x200

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: before 6.1.136 (fixed in 6.1.136); from 6.2, before 6.6.89 (fixed in 6.6.89); from 6.7, before 6.12.26 (fixed in 6.12.26); from 6.13, before 6.14.5 (fixed in 6.14.5); version 6.15 only

Published 2025-05-08. Last modified 2026-07-30.