CVEvulnerability

CVE-2025-21975

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2025-04-01 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2025-04-01
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-476

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/mlx5: handle errors in mlx5_chains_create_table() In mlx5_chains_create_table(), the return value of mlx5_get_fdb_sub_ns() and mlx5_get_flow_namespace() must be checked to prevent NULL pointer dereferences. If either function fails, the function should log error message with mlx5_core_warn() and return error pointer.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 5.6 < 5.10.236) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.180) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.132) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.84) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.20) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.13.8) • linux linux kernel 6.14

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness

References