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THREAT OPS › Threat News › [NVD] CVE-2025-40098 — In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: hda: cs35l41: Fix NULL pointer dereference in cs35l41_get_acpi_mute_state() Return value of a function acpi_evaluate_dsm() is dereferenced without checking for NULL, but it is usually checked for this fu

[NVD] CVE-2025-40098 — In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: hda: cs35l41: Fix NULL pointer dereference in cs35l41_get_acpi_mute_state() Return value of a function acpi_evaluate_dsm() is dereferenced without checking for NULL, but it is usually checked for this fu

lownvdPublished 2025-10-30

CVE-2025-40098 CVSS: None Published: 2025-10-30T10:15:34.260

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

ALSA: hda: cs35l41: Fix NULL pointer dereference in cs35l41_get_acpi_mute_state()

Return value of a function acpi_evaluate_dsm() is dereferenced without checking for NULL, but it is usually checked for this function.

acpi_evaluate_dsm() may return NULL, when acpi_e

Indicators of compromise

Original source: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-40098