Bug 2365272 (CVE-2025-37841)

Summary: CVE-2025-37841 kernel: pm: cpupower: bench: Prevent NULL dereference on malloc failure
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-05-09 07:02:48 UTC 
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

pm: cpupower: bench: Prevent NULL dereference on malloc failure

If malloc returns NULL due to low memory, 'config' pointer can be NULL.
Add a check to prevent NULL dereference.
Comment 1 Michal Findra 2025-05-09 08:18:53 UTC 
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025050915-CVE-2025-37841-1954@gregkh/T