fkie_cve-2025-38641
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2025-08-22 16:15
Modified
2025-11-26 16:37
Severity ?
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5029d80bfc30b60ff57c70ccb04e027acb404f6aPatch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b505902c66a282dcb01bcdc015aa1fdfaaa075dbPatch
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
linux linux_kernel 6.16


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  "id": "CVE-2025-38641",
  "lastModified": "2025-11-26T16:37:03.980",
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