CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-38122
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2025-07-03
- 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:
gve: add missing NULL check for gve_alloc_pending_packet() in TX DQO
gve_alloc_pending_packet() can return NULL, but gve_tx_add_skb_dqo()
did not check for this case before dereferencing the returned pointer.
Add a missing NULL check to prevent a potential NULL pointer
dereference when allocation fails.
This improves robustness in low-memory scenarios.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.14 < 5.15.186)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.142)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.94)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.34)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.15.3)
• debian debian linux 11.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/12c331b29c7397ac3b03584e12902990693bc248 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2e5ead9e4e91fbe7799bd38afd8904543be1cb51 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7f6265fce3bd424ded666481b37f106d7915fb6b Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a0319c9b1648a67511e947a596ca86888451c0a7 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ae98a1787fdcb0096d122bc80d93c3c7d812c04b Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c741a7ef68023ac800054e2131c3e22e647fd7e3 Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00008.html Third Party Advisory