# 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-2025-40346"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-12-16T13:30:20.395Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:47:35.335Z"
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-2025-40346"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-40346.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-40346"
title: "arch_topology: Fix incorrect error check in topology_parse_cpu_capacity()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\narch_topology: Fix incorrect error check in topology_parse_cpu_capacity()\n\nFix incorrect use of PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO() in topology_parse_cpu_capacity()\nwhich causes the code to proceed with NULL clock pointers. The current\nlogic uses !PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO(cpu_clk) which evaluates to true for both\nvalid pointers and NULL, leading to potential NULL pointer dereference\nin clk_get_rate().\n\nPer include/linux/err.h documentation, PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO(ptr) returns:\n\"The error code within @ptr if it is an error pointer; 0 otherwise.\"\n\nThis means PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO() returns 0 for both valid pointers AND NULL\npointers. Therefore !PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO(cpu_clk) evaluates to true (proceed)\nwhen cpu_clk is either valid or NULL, causing clk_get_rate(NULL) to be\ncalled when of_clk_get() returns NULL.\n\nReplace with !IS_ERR_OR_NULL(cpu_clk) which only proceeds for valid\npointers, preventing potential NULL pointer dereference in clk_get_rate()."
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