fkie_nvd - fkie_cve-2025-39858

fkie_cve-2025-39858

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd

Published

2025-09-19 16:15

Modified

2025-09-22 21:23

Severity ?

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: eth: mlx4: Fix IS_ERR() vs NULL check bug in mlx4_en_create_rx_ring Replace NULL check with IS_ERR() check after calling page_pool_create() since this function returns error pointers (ERR_PTR). Using NULL check could lead to invalid pointer dereference.

References

	URL	Tags
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7b77d8841a98a9f45c8a615222c698df8dec581c
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e580beaf43d563aaf457f1c7f934002355ebfe7b

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version

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    }
  ],
  "id": "CVE-2025-39858",
  "lastModified": "2025-09-22T21:23:01.543",
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  "published": "2025-09-19T16:15:44.760",
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  "vulnStatus": "Awaiting Analysis"
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CVE-2025-39858 (GCVE-0-2025-39858)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2025-09-19 15:26

Modified

2025-09-29 06:01

Severity ?

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: eth: mlx4: Fix IS_ERR() vs NULL check bug in mlx4_en_create_rx_ring Replace NULL check with IS_ERR() check after calling page_pool_create() since this function returns error pointers (ERR_PTR). Using NULL check could lead to invalid pointer dereference.

References

URL

Tags

	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7b77d8841a98a9f45c8a615222c698df8dec581c
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e580beaf43d563aaf457f1c7f934002355ebfe7b

Impacted products

Vendor

Product

Version

Version: 8533b14b3d65ee666ba31254787c1bdaee56d95a
Version: 8533b14b3d65ee666ba31254787c1bdaee56d95a

Version: 6.15

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