CVE-2025-38541
kernel: wifi: mt76: mt7925: Fix null-ptr-deref in mt7925_thermal_init()
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.1
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Published · August 16, 2025
Updated · June 30, 2026
Description
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.
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.1 · 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE-476 · NULL Pointer Dereference