fkie_nvd - fkie_cve-2025-38641

fkie_cve-2025-38641

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd

Published

2025-08-22 16:15

Modified

2025-08-22 18:08

Severity ?

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

	URL	Tags
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5029d80bfc30b60ff57c70ccb04e027acb404f6a
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b505902c66a282dcb01bcdc015aa1fdfaaa075db

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version

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    {
      "lang": "en",
      "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nBluetooth: btusb: Fix potential NULL dereference on kmalloc failure\n\nAvoid potential NULL pointer dereference by checking the return value of\nkmalloc and handling allocation failure properly."
    },
    {
      "lang": "es",
      "value": "En el kernel de Linux, se ha resuelto la siguiente vulnerabilidad: Bluetooth: btusb: corrige la posible desreferencia de NULL en caso de falla de kmalloc. Evita la posible desreferencia de puntero NULL comprobando el valor de retorno de kmalloc y manejando la falla de asignaci\u00f3n de forma adecuada."
    }
  ],
  "id": "CVE-2025-38641",
  "lastModified": "2025-08-22T18:08:51.663",
  "metrics": {},
  "published": "2025-08-22T16:15:38.150",
  "references": [
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      "source": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67",
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    },
    {
      "source": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67",
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    }
  ],
  "sourceIdentifier": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67",
  "vulnStatus": "Awaiting Analysis"
}

CVE-2025-38641 (GCVE-0-2025-38641)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2025-08-22 16:00

Modified

2025-09-29 05:55

Severity ?

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

URL

Tags

	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5029d80bfc30b60ff57c70ccb04e027acb404f6a
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b505902c66a282dcb01bcdc015aa1fdfaaa075db

Impacted products

Vendor

Product

Version

Version: 7d70989fcea7f79afe018a7e34d3486406c7a94e
Version: 7d70989fcea7f79afe018a7e34d3486406c7a94e

Version: 6.16

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