CVE-2025-38281

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-38281
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-38281.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2025-38281
Downstream
Published
2025-07-10T07:41:59.518Z
Modified
2025-12-05T09:28:49.475466Z
Summary
wifi: mt76: mt7996: Add NULL check in mt7996_thermal_init
Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

wifi: mt76: mt7996: Add NULL check in mt7996thermalinit

devmkasprintf() can return a NULL pointer on failure,but this returned value in mt7996thermalinit() is not checked. Add NULL check in mt7996thermal_init(), to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference error.

Database specific
{
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/38xxx/CVE-2025-38281.json",
    "cna_assigner": "Linux"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
69d54ce7491d046eaae05de7fb2493319a481991
Fixed
8340cb173750c1ea99cd643006b72f8b0e6c21f2
Fixed
caf4b347c5dc40fdd125793b5e82ba9fc4de5275

Affected versions

v6.*

v6.13
v6.13-rc7
v6.14
v6.14-rc1
v6.14-rc2
v6.14-rc3
v6.14-rc4
v6.14-rc5
v6.14-rc6
v6.14-rc7
v6.15
v6.15-rc1
v6.15-rc2
v6.15-rc3
v6.15-rc4
v6.15-rc5
v6.15-rc6
v6.15-rc7
v6.15.1
v6.15.2

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.14.0
Fixed
6.15.3