# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-21783"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-02-27T02:18:24.980Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:06:20.690Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:29.455Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-21783"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-21783.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-21783"
title: "gpiolib: Fix crash on error in gpiochip_get_ngpios()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ngpiolib: Fix crash on error in gpiochip_get_ngpios()\n\nThe gpiochip_get_ngpios() uses chip_*() macros to print messages.\nHowever these macros rely on gpiodev to be initialised and set,\nwhich is not the case when called via bgpio_init(). In such a case\nthe printing messages will crash on NULL pointer dereference.\nReplace chip_*() macros by the respective dev_*() ones to avoid\nsuch crash."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"55b2395e4e92adc492c6b30ac109eb78250dcd9d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4d9b2b62e1136d10f661ec4c0c268140b6f74f4f"},{"version":"55b2395e4e92adc492c6b30ac109eb78250dcd9d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a7052afa9eae2239e25943baa8817a6a56e8aa68"},{"version":"55b2395e4e92adc492c6b30ac109eb78250dcd9d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"189fb76215e479c10731baabb50f1a352d2078f5"},{"version":"55b2395e4e92adc492c6b30ac109eb78250dcd9d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7b4aebeecbbd5b5fe73e35fad3f62ed21aa7ef44"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.6","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.6"},{"version":"6.6.79","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.16","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.13.4","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.13.*"},{"version":"6.14","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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