# CVE-2025-22066: ASoC: imx-card: Add NULL check in imx\_card\_probe()

- Severity: CVSS 5.5 (Medium), CISA-ADP
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2025-04-16 · Updated: 2026-05-11

## Affected

- Linux: version range not reported
- Linux: 5.14

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ASoC: imx-card: Add NULL check in imx_card_probe() devm_kasprintf() returns NULL when memory allocation fails. Currently, imx_card_probe() does not check for this case, which results in a NULL pointer dereference. Add NULL check after devm_kasprintf() to prevent this issue.

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## Related

- Browse: [Linux kernel](https://cve.now/tech/linux-kernel.md) · [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/018e6cf2503e60087747b0ebc190e18b3640766f
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/38253922a89a742e7e622f626b41c64388367361
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e283a5bf4337a7300ac5e6ae363cc8b242a0b4b7
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4d8458e48ff135bddc402ad79821dc058ea163d0
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b01700e08be99e3842570142ec5973ccd7e73eaf
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dd2bbb9564d0d24a2643ad90008a79840368c4b4
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/93d34608fd162f725172e780b1c60cc93a920719

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