Bug 2390397 (CVE-2025-38630)

Summary: CVE-2025-38630 kernel: fbdev: imxfb: Check fb_add_videomode to prevent null-ptr-deref
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-08-22 17:04:47 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

fbdev: imxfb: Check fb_add_videomode to prevent null-ptr-deref

fb_add_videomode() can fail with -ENOMEM when its internal kmalloc() cannot
allocate a struct fb_modelist.  If that happens, the modelist stays empty but
the driver continues to register.  Add a check for its return value to prevent
poteintial null-ptr-deref, which is similar to the commit 17186f1f90d3 ("fbdev:
Fix do_register_framebuffer to prevent null-ptr-deref in fb_videomode_to_var").