CVE-2025-21870 — NULL Pointer Dereference in Linux
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.1%
top 81.74%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedMar 27
Latest updateSep 3
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ASoC: SOF: ipc4-topology: Harden loops for looking up ALH copiers
Other, non DAI copier widgets could have the same stream name (sname) as
the ALH copier and in that case the copier->data is NULL, no alh_data is
attached, which could lead to NULL pointer dereference.
We could check for this NULL pointer in sof_ipc4_prepare_copier_module()
and avoid the crash, but a similar loop in sof_ipc4_widget_setup_comp_dai()
will miscalcu…
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 3.6