CVE-2025-40116 (GCVE-0-2025-40116)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-11-12 10:23
Modified
2025-11-12 10:23
Severity ?
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: usb: host: max3421-hcd: Fix error pointer dereference in probe cleanup The kthread_run() function returns error pointers so the max3421_hcd->spi_thread pointer can be either error pointers or NULL. Check for both before dereferencing it.
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Linux Linux Version: 05dfa5c9bc37933181b619e42ec0eeb41ef31362
Version: 05dfa5c9bc37933181b619e42ec0eeb41ef31362
Version: 05dfa5c9bc37933181b619e42ec0eeb41ef31362
Version: 05dfa5c9bc37933181b619e42ec0eeb41ef31362
Version: 05dfa5c9bc37933181b619e42ec0eeb41ef31362
Version: 05dfa5c9bc37933181b619e42ec0eeb41ef31362
Version: 05dfa5c9bc37933181b619e42ec0eeb41ef31362
Version: 05dfa5c9bc37933181b619e42ec0eeb41ef31362
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