# 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-2025-40085"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-10-29T13:37:04.707Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-23T16:01:24.342Z"
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-2025-40085"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-40085.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-40085"
title: "ALSA: usb-audio: Fix NULL pointer deference in try_to_register_card"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nALSA: usb-audio: Fix NULL pointer deference in try_to_register_card\n\nIn try_to_register_card(), the return value of usb_ifnum_to_if() is\npassed directly to usb_interface_claimed() without a NULL check, which\nwill lead to a NULL pointer dereference when creating an invalid\nUSB audio device. Fix this by adding a check to ensure the interface\npointer is valid before passing it to usb_interface_claimed()."
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