CVE-2025-38171 (GCVE-0-2025-38171)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-07-03 08:36
Modified
2025-07-28 04:14
Severity ?
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: power: supply: max77705: Fix workqueue error handling in probe The create_singlethread_workqueue() doesn't return error pointers, it returns NULL. Also cleanup the workqueue on the error paths.
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Linux Linux Version: a6a494c8e3ce1fe84aac538b087a4cab868ed83f
Version: a6a494c8e3ce1fe84aac538b087a4cab868ed83f
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