CVE-2025-22033 — NULL Pointer Dereference in Linux
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
OSV7.1OSV5.9
EPSS
0.1%
top 74.36%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedApr 16
Latest updateJan 9
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
arm64: Don't call NULL in do_compat_alignment_fixup()
do_alignment_t32_to_handler() only fixes up alignment faults for
specific instructions; it returns NULL otherwise (e.g. LDREX). When
that's the case, signal to the caller that it needs to proceed with the
regular alignment fault handling (i.e. SIGBUS). Without this patch, the
kernel panics:
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 000000000000000…
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