CVE-2025-40013: Linux

EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ASoC: qcom: audioreach: fix potential null pointer dereference It is possible that the topology parsing function audioreach_widget_load_module_common() could return NULL or an error pointer. Add missing NULL check so that we do not dereference it.

Affected products

• Linux Linux: from 5.16, before 6.1.156 (fixed in 6.1.156); from 6.2, before 6.6.110 (fixed in 6.6.110); from 6.7, before 6.12.51 (fixed in 6.12.51); from 6.13, before 6.16.11 (fixed in 6.16.11); from 6.17, before 6.17.1 (fixed in 6.17.1)

Published 2025-10-20. Last modified 2026-06-17.