CVE-2025-38368 (GCVE-0-2025-38368)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-07-25 12:47
Modified
2025-07-28 11:16
Severity ?
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: misc: tps6594-pfsm: Add NULL pointer check in tps6594_pfsm_probe() The returned value, pfsm->miscdev.name, from devm_kasprintf() could be NULL. A pointer check is added to prevent potential NULL pointer dereference. This is similar to the fix in commit 3027e7b15b02 ("ice: Fix some null pointer dereference issues in ice_ptp.c"). This issue is found by our static analysis tool.
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Linux Linux Version: a0df3ef087f8aaebbdf205b1b2e126ec9ef6b113
Version: a0df3ef087f8aaebbdf205b1b2e126ec9ef6b113
Version: a0df3ef087f8aaebbdf205b1b2e126ec9ef6b113
Version: a0df3ef087f8aaebbdf205b1b2e126ec9ef6b113
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