CVE-2025-38635 clk: davinci: Add NULL check in davinci_lpsc_clk_register()

What is CVE-2025-38635?

CVE-2025-38635 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 22 Aug 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:

clk: davinci: Add NULL check in davinci_lpsc_clk_register()

devm_kasprintf() returns NULL when memory allocation fails. Currently, davinci_lpsc_clk_register() does not check for this case, which results in a NULL pointer dereference.

Add NULL check after devm_kasprintf() to prevent this issue and ensuring no resources are left allocated.

Weakness: CWE-476

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-38635?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2025-38635?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2025-38635 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-38635 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 AZL-66638, AZL-73485, BELL-CVE-2025-38635, DEBIAN-CVE-2025-38635, GHSA-r59m-grjg-3vpv, ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-11-CVE-2025-38635 and 5 more.