CVE-2025-38281 - CVE House
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Status published Unknown CVE-2025-38281

wifi: mt76: mt7996: Add NULL check in mt7996_thermal_init

Vulnerability Description

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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

Linux
Vulnerable Versions:
69d54ce7491d046eaae05de7fb2493319a481991, 6.14, 0, 6.15.3, 6.16

Timeline

Official Publish: July 10th, 2025
Last Modified: May 11th, 2026
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

No vector data available

Weaknesses (CWE)

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MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

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