CVE-2025-38541 (GCVE-0-2025-38541)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-08-16 11:22
Modified
2025-08-16 11:22
Severity ?
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mt76: mt7925: Fix null-ptr-deref in mt7925_thermal_init() devm_kasprintf() returns NULL on error. Currently, mt7925_thermal_init() does not check for this case, which results in a NULL pointer dereference. Add NULL check after devm_kasprintf() to prevent this issue.
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Linux Linux Version: 396e41a74a88654f23e36c46d2995752c91654a5
Version: 396e41a74a88654f23e36c46d2995752c91654a5
Version: 396e41a74a88654f23e36c46d2995752c91654a5
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