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● CVE — Medium

CVE-2025-38541

VendorlinuxProductlinux kernelDiscoveredAug 16, 2025UpdatedNov 18, 2025

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 v3.1
5.5 MEDIUM
EPSS
0.15%
probability of exploitation in 30 days
CISA KEV
Not listed
no confirmed exploitation reported
News coverage
6
sources referencing this CVE
Related IOCs
0
seen in the same coverage
EPSS Trend
Aug 16, 2026 → Oct 22, 2026
● 0.01pp
0.14% → 0.15% over 3 tracked changes
CVSS v3.1 Detail
Attack VectorLOCAL
Attack ComplexityLOW
Privileges RequiredLOW
User InteractionNONE
ScopeUNCHANGED
ConfidentialityNONE
IntegrityNONE
AvailabilityHIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Connections
8 relationships
Timeline
disclosure → media coverage
Aug 16, 2025
Disclosure — published as a CVE record. · last revised by NVD Nov 18, 2025
Oct 21, 2025
ubuntu.com reports: USN-7833-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Oct 22, 2025
ubuntu.com reports: USN-7834-1: Linux kernel (Azure) vulnerabilities
Oct 22, 2025
ubuntu.com reports: USN-7833-2: Linux kernel (Real-time) vulnerabilities
Oct 24, 2025
ubuntu.com reports: USN-7833-3: Linux kernel (AWS) vulnerabilities
Oct 31, 2025
ubuntu.com reports: USN-7833-4: Linux kernel (GCP) vulnerabilities
Nov 4, 2025
ubuntu.com reports: USN-7856-1: Linux kernel (HWE) vulnerabilities