Bug 2422835 (CVE-2025-68309)

Summary: CVE-2025-68309 kernel: PCI/AER: Fix NULL pointer access by aer_info
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-12-16 16:05:22 UTC 
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

PCI/AER: Fix NULL pointer access by aer_info

The kzalloc(GFP_KERNEL) may return NULL, so all accesses to aer_info->xxx
will result in kernel panic. Fix it.
Comment 1 Alexander B 2025-12-16 17:39:05 UTC 
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025121651-CVE-2025-68309-1029@gregkh/T