Bug 2393734 (CVE-2025-39729)

Summary: CVE-2025-39729 kernel: crypto: ccp - Fix dereferencing uninitialized error pointer
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-09-07 16:01:22 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

crypto: ccp - Fix dereferencing uninitialized error pointer

Fix below smatch warnings:
drivers/crypto/ccp/sev-dev.c:1312 __sev_platform_init_locked()
error: we previously assumed 'error' could be null

Comment 1 Mauro Matteo Cascella 2025-09-09 08:14:14 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025090730-CVE-2025-39729-14c4@gregkh/T