CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-38645
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2025-08-22
- 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: Check device memory pointer before usage
Add a NULL check before accessing device memory to prevent a crash if
dev->dm allocation in mlx5_init_once() fails.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.4 < 5.15.190)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.148)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.102)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.42)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.15.10)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.16 < 6.16.1)
• debian debian linux 11.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3046b011d368162b1b9ca9453eee0fea930e0a93 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4249f1307932f1b6bbb8b7eba60d82f0b7e44430 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/62d7cf455c887941ed6f105cd430ba04ee0b6c9f Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/70f238c902b8c0461ae6fbb8d1a0bbddc4350eea Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9053a69abfb5680c2a95292b96df5d204bc0776f Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/da899a1fd7c40e2e4302af1db7d0b8540fb22283 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eebb225fe6c9103293807b8edabcbad59f9589bc Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00008.html Third Party Advisory