CVE-2025-38281 (GCVE-0-2025-38281)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-07-10 07:41 – Updated: 2026-05-11 21:24
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Title
wifi: mt76: mt7996: Add NULL check in mt7996_thermal_init
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mt76: mt7996: Add NULL check in mt7996_thermal_init devm_kasprintf() can return a NULL pointer on failure,but this returned value in mt7996_thermal_init() is not checked. Add NULL check in mt7996_thermal_init(), to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference error.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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Vendor Product Version
Linux Linux Affected: 69d54ce7491d046eaae05de7fb2493319a481991 , < 8340cb173750c1ea99cd643006b72f8b0e6c21f2 (git)
Affected: 69d54ce7491d046eaae05de7fb2493319a481991 , < caf4b347c5dc40fdd125793b5e82ba9fc4de5275 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.14
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.14 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.15.3 , ≤ 6.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.16 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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