# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-40030"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-10-28T11:48:01.608Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:41:07.740Z"
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-2025-40030"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-40030.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-40030"
title: "pinctrl: check the return value of pinmux_ops::get_function_name()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\npinctrl: check the return value of pinmux_ops::get_function_name()\n\nWhile the API contract in docs doesn't specify it explicitly, the\ngeneric implementation of the get_function_name() callback from struct\npinmux_ops - pinmux_generic_get_function_name() - can fail and return\nNULL. This is already checked in pinmux_check_ops() so add a similar\ncheck in pinmux_func_name_to_selector() instead of passing the returned\npointer right down to strcmp() where the NULL can get dereferenced. This\nis normal operation when adding new pinfunctions."
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