{"id":"CVE-2025-37971","state":"PUBLISHED","title":"staging: bcm2835-camera: Initialise dev in v4l2_dev","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nstaging: bcm2835-camera: Initialise dev in v4l2_dev\n\nCommit 42a2f6664e18 (\"staging: vc04_services: Move global g_state to\nvchiq_state\") changed mmal_init to pass dev->v4l2_dev.dev to\nvchiq_mmal_init, however nothing iniitialised dev->v4l2_dev, so we got\na NULL pointer dereference.\n\nSet dev->v4l2_dev.dev during bcm2835_mmal_probe. The device pointer\ncould be passed into v4l2_device_register to set it, however that also\nhas other effects that would need additional changes.","publishedAt":"2025-05-20T16:47:17.879Z","updatedAt":"2026-05-11T21:18:47.057Z","severity":null,"assigner":"Linux","products":["Linux Linux"],"affected":[{"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected","versions":[{"version":"42a2f6664e18874302623f31edef545ef41e1d14","status":"affected","lessThan":"06753f49336ab161ea0e249a0720125b81b7b31b","versionType":"git"},{"version":"42a2f6664e18874302623f31edef545ef41e1d14","status":"affected","lessThan":"b70bdd4923e8b8edbacde2af83ca337bb7005261","versionType":"git"},{"version":"42a2f6664e18874302623f31edef545ef41e1d14","status":"affected","lessThan":"98698ca0e58734bc5c1c24e5bbc7429f981cd186","versionType":"git"}],"repo":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git","programFiles":["drivers/staging/vc04_services/bcm2835-camera/bcm2835-camera.c"]},{"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected","versions":[{"version":"6.10","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","lessThan":"6.10","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"6.12.29","status":"unaffected","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"6.14.7","status":"unaffected","lessThanOrEqual":"6.14.*","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"6.15","status":"unaffected","lessThanOrEqual":"*","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix"}],"repo":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git","programFiles":["drivers/staging/vc04_services/bcm2835-camera/bcm2835-camera.c"]}],"references":["https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/06753f49336ab161ea0e249a0720125b81b7b31b","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b70bdd4923e8b8edbacde2af83ca337bb7005261","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/98698ca0e58734bc5c1c24e5bbc7429f981cd186"],"weaknesses":[],"ingestedAt":"2026-10-29T20:09:03.054Z","source":{"repository":"CVEProject/cvelistV5","path":"cves/2025/37xxx/CVE-2025-37971.json","commit":"556c9d3a8cd17e218bb8e452ba7cd619a384ff47"},"raw":{"dataType":"CVE_RECORD","dataVersion":"5.2","cveMetadata":{"cveId":"CVE-2025-37971","state":"PUBLISHED","datePublished":"2025-05-20T16:47:17.879Z","dateUpdated":"2026-05-11T21:18:47.057Z","assignerShortName":"Linux","assignerOrgId":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","dateReserved":"2025-04-16T04:51:23.975Z"},"containers":{"cna":{"title":"staging: bcm2835-camera: Initialise dev in v4l2_dev","descriptions":[{"lang":"en","value":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nstaging: bcm2835-camera: Initialise dev in v4l2_dev\n\nCommit 42a2f6664e18 (\"staging: vc04_services: Move global g_state to\nvchiq_state\") changed mmal_init to pass dev->v4l2_dev.dev to\nvchiq_mmal_init, however nothing iniitialised dev->v4l2_dev, so we got\na NULL pointer dereference.\n\nSet dev->v4l2_dev.dev during bcm2835_mmal_probe. 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