CVE-2025-23146 mfd: ene-kb3930: Fix a potential NULL pointer dereference

What is CVE-2025-23146?

CVE-2025-23146 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 1 May 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

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

mfd: ene-kb3930: Fix a potential NULL pointer dereference

The off_gpios could be NULL. Add missing check in the kb3930_probe(). This is similar to the issue fixed in commit b1ba8bcb2d1f ("backlight: hx8357: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference").

This was detected by our static analysis tool.

Weakness: CWE-476

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-23146?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2025-23146?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2025-23146 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-23146 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as BELL-CVE-2025-23146, DEBIAN-CVE-2025-23146, GHSA-43jc-vxjx-v42r, ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-12-CVE-2025-23146, ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2204-CVE-2025-23146, ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2404-CVE-2025-23146 and 1 more.