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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
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"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-40034"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-40034.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-40034"
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-\u003eaer_info, which\ncontains AER stats and ratelimiting data, is NULL.\n\npci_dev_aer_stats_incr() already checks dev-\u003eaer_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]"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"a57f2bfb4a5863f83087867c0e671f2418212d23","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"41683624cbff0a26bb7e0627f4a7e1b51a8779a8"},{"version":"a57f2bfb4a5863f83087867c0e671f2418212d23","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"deb2f228388ff3a9d0623e3b59a053e9235c341d"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.16","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.16"},{"version":"6.17.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.17.*"},{"version":"6.18","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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