# 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-2025-39807"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-09-16T13:00:10.408Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-23T16:00:46.198Z"
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-2025-39807"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-39807.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-39807"
title: "drm/mediatek: Add error handling for old state CRTC in atomic_disable"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndrm/mediatek: Add error handling for old state CRTC in atomic_disable\n\nIntroduce error handling to address an issue where, after a hotplug\nevent, the cursor continues to update. This situation can lead to a\nkernel panic due to accessing the NULL `old_state-\u003ecrtc`.\n\nE,g.\nUnable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address\nCall trace:\n mtk_crtc_plane_disable+0x24/0x140\n mtk_plane_atomic_update+0x8c/0xa8\n drm_atomic_helper_commit_planes+0x114/0x2c8\n drm_atomic_helper_commit_tail_rpm+0x4c/0x158\n commit_tail+0xa0/0x168\n drm_atomic_helper_commit+0x110/0x120\n drm_atomic_commit+0x8c/0xe0\n drm_atomic_helper_update_plane+0xd4/0x128\n __setplane_atomic+0xcc/0x110\n drm_mode_cursor_common+0x250/0x440\n drm_mode_cursor_ioctl+0x44/0x70\n drm_ioctl+0x264/0x5d8\n __arm64_sys_ioctl+0xd8/0x510\n invoke_syscall+0x6c/0xe0\n do_el0_svc+0x68/0xe8\n el0_svc+0x34/0x60\n el0t_64_sync_handler+0x1c/0xf8\n el0t_64_sync+0x180/0x188\n\nAdding NULL pointer checks to ensure stability by preventing operations\non an invalid CRTC state."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"40b5b4ba8ed87c0bfb6268c10589777652ebde4c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7d5cc22efa44e0fe321ce195c71c3d7da211fbb2"},{"version":"d208261e9f7c66960587b10473081dc1cecbe50b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9a94e9d8b50bcfe89693bc899a54d3866d86e973"},{"version":"d208261e9f7c66960587b10473081dc1cecbe50b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0c6b24d70da21201ed009a2aca740d2dfddc7ab5"},{"version":"a9c482689051ca96f4a4630fe49fd6919694caaa","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"6.12.40","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.12.45"},{"version":"6.15.8","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.16"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.16","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.16"},{"version":"6.12.45","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.16.5","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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