5.5

CVE-2025-38541: linux NULL Pointer Dereference

CVSS: 5.5v3.1MediumAnalyzed
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38541DEBIAN-CVE-2025-38541
Published 16-08-2025Last modified 11-05-2026
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2025-38541 is a medium (CVSS 5.5) NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in linux. EPSS estimates a 0.15% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 4% 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
0.15%
0%100%
Low · +0.01 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 22 · Related 22
OPENSUSE-SU-2026:20287-1SUSE-SU-2025:03272-1SUSE-SU-2025:03290-1SUSE-SU-2025:03301-1SUSE-SU-2025:03382-1SUSE-SU-2025:03602-1

Timeline

  1. 16-08-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 11-05-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mt76: mt7925: Fix null-ptr-deref in mt7925_thermal_init() devm_kasprintf() returns NULL on error. Currently, mt7925_thermal_init() does not check for this case, which results in a NULL pointer dereference. Add NULL check after devm_kasprintf() to prevent this issue.

CVSS metrics

3 scores · 3 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.15%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

4%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

+0.01 pp

From 0.15% on 21-09-2026

21-09-202621-10-2026
EPSS score
0.15%

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

Ubuntu93 products
  • linux-allwinner-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws-5.0All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws-5.11All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws-5.13All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
Linux2 products
  • linux≥ 396e41a74a88654f23e36c46d2995752c91654a5, < 1bbdf4213711bb6dc365e7628430a63dd3280794 | ≥ 396e41a74a88654f23e36c46d2995752c91654a5, < 2e99e9b34ece0b6d3e82cb757e9f60fa414da999 | ≥ 396e41a74a88654f23e36c46d2995752c91654a5, < 03ee8f73801a8f46d83dfc2bf73fb9ffa5a21602 | 6.9
  • linux_kernel≥ 6.9, < 6.12.39 | ≥ 6.13, < 6.15.7 | 6.16:rc1 | 6.16:rc2 | 6.16:rc3 | 6.16:rc4 | 6.16:rc5
Debian1 product
  • linux< 6.12.41-1 | < 6.16.3-1

3 vendors · 96 products

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