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CVE-2025-38368 (GCVE-0-2025-38368)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-07-25 12:47 – Updated: 2026-05-11 21:26
VLAI
Title
misc: tps6594-pfsm: Add NULL pointer check in tps6594_pfsm_probe()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: misc: tps6594-pfsm: Add NULL pointer check in tps6594_pfsm_probe() The returned value, pfsm->miscdev.name, from devm_kasprintf() could be NULL. A pointer check is added to prevent potential NULL pointer dereference. This is similar to the fix in commit 3027e7b15b02 ("ice: Fix some null pointer dereference issues in ice_ptp.c"). This issue is found by our static analysis tool.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: a0df3ef087f8aaebbdf205b1b2e126ec9ef6b113 , < a8d1b4f219e8833130927f19d1c8bfbf49215ce4 (git)
Affected: a0df3ef087f8aaebbdf205b1b2e126ec9ef6b113 , < a10c8bff454b11ef553d9df19ee722d2df34cd0e (git)
Affected: a0df3ef087f8aaebbdf205b1b2e126ec9ef6b113 , < d27ee5c59881a64ea92e363502742cb4f38b7460 (git)
Affected: a0df3ef087f8aaebbdf205b1b2e126ec9ef6b113 , < a99b598d836c9c6411110c70a2da134c78d96e67 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.5
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.5 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.96 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.36 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.15.5 , ≤ 6.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.16 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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