CVE-2025-40029 | bus: fsl-mc: Check return value of platform_get_resource()

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bus: fsl-mc: Check return value of platform_get_resource() platform_get_resource() returns NULL in case of failure, so check its return value and propagate the error in order to prevent NULL pointer dereference.

Published: 2025-10-28 Last update: 2026-06-17 Assigner: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2025-40029 is rated Low Risk (7.7/100): low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.18%). Mandatory action: Low composite risk—no urgent action required; patch on your normal maintenance cycle and revisit priority if CVSS or EPSS increases.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2025-40029

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-06-15 0.06% 0.18% +0.12%
2 2026-05-15 0.04% 0.06% +0.01%
3 2026-05-12 0.04%

Full EPSS history (7 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2025-40029

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

No CVSS data in dataset for this CVE.

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2025-40029

OS Trackers for CVE-2025-40029

vendor priority summary link
debian not yet assigned CVE-2025-40029 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 2 source packages (linux, linux-6.1), 6 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 6. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-40029
redhat medium https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-40029
suse medium CVE-2025-40029 severity moderate: SUSE including 486 source package names (13.2-6.19:libjitterentropy3-3.4.1-3.1, 13.2-6.19:libopenssl3-3.1.4-6.1, …), 1014 product×package rows across 208 product lines (Container suse/sl-micro/6.0/baremetal-os-container, Container suse/sl-micro/6.0/base-os-container, … (208 product lines)): Fixed 676, Known Affected 231, Known Not Affected 86, First Fixed 21. https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-40029/
ubuntu medium CVE-2025-40029 medium priority: Ubuntu including 157 source packages (linux, linux-allwinner-5.19, …), 1405 status rows across 9 suites (bionic, focal, jammy, noble, plucky, questing, trusty, upstream, xenial): DNE 1010, ignored 177, released 158, not-affected 49, needed 8, pending 3. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-40029

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2025-40029

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
No affected products in dataset.

References for CVE-2025-40029

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