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    "id": "CVE-2025-40034",
    "sourceURL": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-40034",
    "idYear": 2025,
    "status": "PUBLISHED",
    "publishedAt": "2025-10-28T11:48:16.335Z",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-11T21:41:12.240Z",
    "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"
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    "facts": {
      "title": "PCI/AER: Avoid NULL pointer dereference in aer_ratelimit()",
      "summary": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nPCI/AER: Avoid NULL pointer dereference in aer_ratelimit()\n\nWhen platform firmware supplies error information to the OS, e.g., via the\nACPI APEI GHES mechanism, it may identify an error source device that\ndoesn't advertise an AER Capability and therefore dev->aer_info, which\ncontains AER stats and ratelimiting data, is NULL.\n\npci_dev_aer_stats_incr() already checks dev->aer_info for NULL, but\naer_ratelimit() did not, leading to NULL pointer dereferences like this one\nfrom the URL below:\n\n  {1}[Hardware Error]: Hardware error from APEI Generic Hardware Error Source: 0\n  {1}[Hardware Error]: event severity: corrected\n  {1}[Hardware Error]:   device_id: 0000:00:00.0\n  {1}[Hardware Error]:   vendor_id: 0x8086, device_id: 0x2020\n  {1}[Hardware Error]:   aer_cor_status: 0x00001000, aer_cor_mask: 0x00002000\n  BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000264\n  RIP: 0010:___ratelimit+0xc/0x1b0\n  pci_print_aer+0x141/0x360\n  aer_recover_work_func+0xb5/0x130\n\n[8086:2020] is an Intel \"Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers\" device that claims to\nbe a Root Port but does not advertise an AER Capability.\n\nAdd a NULL check in aer_ratelimit() to avoid the NULL pointer dereference.\nNote that this also prevents ratelimiting these events from GHES.\n\n[bhelgaas: add crash details to commit log]",
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          "vendor": "Linux",
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              "version": "6.16",
              "status": "affected"
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            {
              "version": "0",
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              "versionType": "semver",
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              "version": "6.17.3",
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              "version": "6.18",
              "status": "unaffected",
              "versionType": "original_commit_for_fix",
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