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CVE-2025-38281 json

wifi: mt76: mt7996: Add NULL check in mt7996_thermal_init

published 2025-07-10 16 mo ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2025-20967

cvss
5.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.2%
EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 5%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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

wifi: mt76: mt7996: Add NULL check in mt7996_thermal_init

devm_kasprintf() can return a NULL pointer on failure,but this returned value in mt7996_thermal_init() is not checked. Add NULL check in mt7996_thermal_init(), to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference error.

Patch / fix

  • Linux Linux 6.15.3, 6.16
  • linux-aws-6.14 Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.14.0-1013.13~24.04.1
  • linux-gcp-6.14 Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.14.0-1016.17~24.04.1
  • linux-oem-6.14 Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.14.0-1012.12
  • linux-riscv-6.14 Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.14.0-32.32.1~24.04.1
  • linux-oracle-6.14 Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.14.0-1013.13~24.04.1
  • linux-azure-nvidia-6.14 Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.14.0-1007.7
  • linux-realtime-6.14 Ubuntu Pro Realtime 24.04 LTS 6.14.0-1012.12~24.04.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38281

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2025-38281 updated

kernel: wifi: mt76: mt7996: Add NULL check in mt7996_thermal_init

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, python-perf, kernel-kdump, +8 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, kernel-core, kernel-tools, +29 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 rv, perf, rtla, kernel, bpftool, libperf, +83 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 kernel
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.16% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 5% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

  • Linux Linux

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