CVEvulnerability

CVE-2025-39856

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2025-09-19 Modified 2026-10-19 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2025-09-19
Last modified
2026-10-19
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
CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
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: ethernet: ti: am65-cpsw-nuss: Fix null pointer dereference for ndev In the TX completion packet stage of TI SoCs with CPSW2G instance, which has single external ethernet port, ndev is accessed without being initialized if no TX packets have been processed. It results into null pointer dereference, causing kernel to crash. Fix this by having a check on the number of TX packets which have been processed.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 6.15 < 6.16.6) • linux linux kernel 6.17

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness

References