2406769 – (CVE-2025-40059) CVE-2025-40059 kernel: coresight: Fix incorrect handling for return value of devm_kzalloc

Bug 2406769 (CVE-2025-40059) - CVE-2025-40059 kernel: coresight: Fix incorrect handling for return value of devm_kzalloc

Summary: CVE-2025-40059 kernel: coresight: Fix incorrect handling for return value of ...

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Status:	NEW
Alias:	CVE-2025-40059
Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability
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Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Priority:	unspecified
Severity:	unspecified
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Reported:	2025-10-28 12:04 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified:	2026-06-29 16:08 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-10-28 12:04:29 UTC

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

coresight: Fix incorrect handling for return value of devm_kzalloc

The return value of devm_kzalloc could be an null pointer,
use "!desc.pdata" to fix incorrect handling return value
of devm_kzalloc.

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