PT-2025-36410 · Linux · Linux Kernel

Published 2025-09-07 · Updated 2025-09-07 · CVE-2025-39729

Positive Technologies · (AI Summary)

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions:

Linux kernel (affected versions not specified)

Description:

The Linux kernel contains an issue where an uninitialized error pointer is dereferenced within the crypto/ccp module. This issue was identified and addressed by fixing smatch warnings in the ` sev platform init locked()` function located in drivers/crypto/ccp/sev-dev.c.

Recommendations:

At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Related Identifiers

CVE-2025-39729

Affected Products

Linux Kernel

References · 5

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-39729 · Security Note
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/841634e1fdc2bdf35ab851fc279fd3bedcdf5e93 · Note
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/1964712359198421456 · Twitter Post
• https://t.me/CVEtracker/31912 · Telegram Post
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0fa766726c091ff0ec7d26874f6e4724d23ecb0e · Note