# 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-2025-40107"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-11-03T12:15:12.587Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:42:39.083Z"
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-2025-40107"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-40107.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-40107"
title: "can: hi311x: fix null pointer dereference when resuming from sleep before interface was enabled"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ncan: hi311x: fix null pointer dereference when resuming from sleep before interface was enabled\n\nThis issue is similar to the vulnerability in the `mcp251x` driver,\nwhich was fixed in commit 03c427147b2d (\"can: mcp251x: fix resume from\nsleep before interface was brought up\").\n\nIn the `hi311x` driver, when the device resumes from sleep, the driver\nschedules `priv-\u003erestart_work`. However, if the network interface was\nnot previously enabled, the `priv-\u003ewq` (workqueue) is not allocated and\ninitialized, leading to a null pointer dereference.\n\nTo fix this, we move the allocation and initialization of the workqueue\nfrom the `hi3110_open` function to the `hi3110_can_probe` function.\nThis ensures that the workqueue is properly initialized before it is\nused during device resume. And added logic to destroy the workqueue\nin the error handling paths of `hi3110_can_probe` and in the\n`hi3110_can_remove` function to prevent resource leaks."
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