CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-38368
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2025-07-25
- 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:
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.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.5 < 6.6.96)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.36)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.15.5)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a10c8bff454b11ef553d9df19ee722d2df34cd0e Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a8d1b4f219e8833130927f19d1c8bfbf49215ce4 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a99b598d836c9c6411110c70a2da134c78d96e67 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d27ee5c59881a64ea92e363502742cb4f38b7460 Patch