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ghsa-78pg-f8xh-rcvm

Vulnerability from github

Published

2025-08-22 18:31

Modified

2025-08-22 18:31

Details

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.

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  "modified": "2025-08-22T18:31:22Z",
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CVE-2025-38641 (GCVE-0-2025-38641)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2025-08-22 16:00

Modified

2025-08-22 16:00

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

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Linux

Version: 7d70989fcea7f79afe018a7e34d3486406c7a94e
Version: 7d70989fcea7f79afe018a7e34d3486406c7a94e

Linux

Version: 6.16

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