CVE-2025-38541wifi: mt76: mt7925: Fix null-ptr-deref in mt7925_thermal_init()
- 5.5MediumCVSS base score
- 0.16%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 94% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Linux
- 4 months later
· 4 months later
Published
- 9 months later
· 9 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | Medium5.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.16% · top 94% of all CVEs (14 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.5.
Affected products
- affected 396e41a74a88654f23e36c46d2995752c91654a5 – < 1bbdf4213711bb6dc365e7628430a63dd3280794
- affected 396e41a74a88654f23e36c46d2995752c91654a5 – < 2e99e9b34ece0b6d3e82cb757e9f60fa414da999
- affected 396e41a74a88654f23e36c46d2995752c91654a5 – < 03ee8f73801a8f46d83dfc2bf73fb9ffa5a21602
- affected 6.9
- unaffected < 6.9
- unaffected 6.12.39 – ≤ 6.12.*
- unaffected 6.15.7 – ≤ 6.15.*
- unaffected 6.16 – ≤ *
References
Sources
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- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2025-27893 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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