# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-39705"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-09-05T17:21:11.767Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:37:16.991Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:34.152Z"
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-2025-39705"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-39705.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-39705"
title: "drm/amd/display: fix a Null pointer dereference vulnerability"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndrm/amd/display: fix a Null pointer dereference vulnerability\n\n[Why]\nA null pointer dereference vulnerability exists in the AMD display driver's\n(DC module) cleanup function dc_destruct().\nWhen display control context (dc-\u003ectx) construction fails\n(due to memory allocation failure), this pointer remains NULL.\nDuring subsequent error handling when dc_destruct() is called,\nthere's no NULL check before dereferencing the perf_trace member\n(dc-\u003ectx-\u003eperf_trace), causing a kernel null pointer dereference crash.\n\n[How]\nCheck if dc-\u003ectx is non-NULL before dereferencing.\n\n(Updated commit text and removed unnecessary error message)\n(cherry picked from commit 9dd8e2ba268c636c240a918e0a31e6feaee19404)"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"4562236b3bc0a28aeb6ee93b2d8a849a4c4e1c7c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0d9f4f202de1522aadc7a827aba0ae92b3d70937"},{"version":"4562236b3bc0a28aeb6ee93b2d8a849a4c4e1c7c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0961673cc5f0055957aa46f25eb4ef6c07e00165"},{"version":"4562236b3bc0a28aeb6ee93b2d8a849a4c4e1c7c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4ade995b9b25b3c6e8dc42c27070340f1358d8c8"},{"version":"4562236b3bc0a28aeb6ee93b2d8a849a4c4e1c7c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1bcf63a44381691d6192872801f830ce3250e367"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.15","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.15"},{"version":"6.6.160","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.44","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.16.4","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.16.*"},{"version":"6.17","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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