5.5

CVE-2025-38155: linux NULL Pointer Dereference

CVSS: 5.5v3.1MediumAnalyzed
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38155DEBIAN-CVE-2025-38155
Published 03-07-2025Last modified 11-05-2026
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2025-38155 is a medium (CVSS 5.5) NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in linux. EPSS estimates a 0.17% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 5.6% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
22/100
0100
Low · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
5.5/10
010
Medium · v3.1 (NVD)
EPSS score
0.17%
0%100%
Low · +0.02 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 41 · Related 39
MGASA-2025-0218MGASA-2025-0219OPENSUSE-SU-2025:20081-1SUSE-SU-2025:02853-1SUSE-SU-2025:02923-1SUSE-SU-2025:02969-1

Timeline

  1. 03-07-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 11-05-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mt76: mt7915: Fix null-ptr-deref in mt7915_mmio_wed_init() devm_ioremap() returns NULL on error. Currently, mt7915_mmio_wed_init() does not check for this case, which results in a NULL pointer dereference. Prevent null pointer dereference in mt7915_mmio_wed_init().

CVSS metrics

3 scores · 3 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.17%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

6%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

+0.02 pp

From 0.14% on 21-09-2026

21-09-202621-10-2026
EPSS score
0.17%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Ubuntu119 products
  • linux< 6.8.0-100.100
  • linux-allwinner-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws< 6.8.0-1046.49
  • linux-aws-5.0All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws-5.11All versions (No fix recorded)
Linux2 products
  • linux≥ 4f831d18d12da80cec0bebe5b8ca8702a528195a, < e9f9cef1877ac32285dbc1f31b86c8955b712fc2 | ≥ 4f831d18d12da80cec0bebe5b8ca8702a528195a, < 790d05cde359356feea8915094a51166af1629f5 | ≥ 4f831d18d12da80cec0bebe5b8ca8702a528195a, < d825ed9fd768be10d52beba6f57a4b50c0c154aa | ≥ 4f831d18d12da80cec0bebe5b8ca8702a528195a, < efb95439c1477bbc955cacd0179c35e7861b437c | 6.2
  • linux_kernel≥ 6.2, < 6.6.94 | ≥ 6.7, < 6.12.34 | ≥ 6.13, < 6.15.3
Debian1 product
  • linux< 6.12.35-1

3 vendors · 122 products

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