CVE-2025-71138: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/msm/dpu: Add missing NULL pointer check for pingpong interface It is checked almost always in dpu_encoder_phys_wb_setup_ctl(), but in a single place the check is missing. Also use convenient locals instead of phys_enc->* where available. Patchwork: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/693860/

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 5.19.1, before 6.6.120 (fixed in 6.6.120); from 6.7, before 6.12.64 (fixed in 6.12.64); from 6.13, before 6.18.4 (fixed in 6.18.4); version 5.19 only; version 6.19 only

Published 2026-01-14. Last modified 2026-06-17.