Bug 2379173 (CVE-2025-38281) - CVE-2025-38281 kernel: wifi: mt76: mt7996: Add NULL check in mt7996_thermal_init
Summary: CVE-2025-38281 kernel: wifi: mt76: mt7996: Add NULL check in mt7996_thermal_init
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2025-38281
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-07-10 08:01 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-07-11 12:41 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-07-10 08:01:32 UTC 
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.
Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2025-07-11 12:39:25 UTC 
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025071009-CVE-2025-38281-ec50@gregkh/T
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