CVE-2025-38641 (GCVE-0-2025-38641)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-08-22 16:00
Modified
2025-08-22 16:00
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
Bluetooth: btusb: Fix potential NULL dereference on kmalloc failure
Avoid potential NULL pointer dereference by checking the return value of
kmalloc and handling allocation failure properly.
References
Impacted products
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