CVE-2025-38301nvmem: zynqmp_nvmem: unbreak driver after cleanup
- 5.5MediumCVSS base score
- 0.18%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 92% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nvmem: zynqmp_nvmem: unbreak driver after cleanup Commit 29be47fcd6a0 ("nvmem: zynqmp_nvmem: zynqmp_nvmem_probe cleanup") changed the driver to expect the device pointer to be passed as the "context", but in nvmem the context parameter comes from nvmem_config.priv which is never set - Leading to null pointer exceptions when the device is accessed.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Linux
- 3 months later
· 3 months later
Published
- 10 months later
· 10 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | Medium5.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.18% · top 92% of all CVEs (13 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.5.
Affected products
- affected 29be47fcd6a06ea2e79eeeca6e69ad1e23254a69 – < c8bb1bcea877446f86922a8fd1661b8c07d90e5c
- affected 29be47fcd6a06ea2e79eeeca6e69ad1e23254a69 – < 3728101f56ef54425a11027a3ddc2c3941d60b71
- affected 29be47fcd6a06ea2e79eeeca6e69ad1e23254a69 – < fe8abdd175d7b547ae1a612757e7902bcd62e9cf
- affected 6.9
- unaffected < 6.9
- unaffected 6.12.34 – ≤ 6.12.*
- unaffected 6.15.3 – ≤ 6.15.*
- unaffected 6.16 – ≤ *
References
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2025-20947 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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