CVE-2025-38541 – “Qualcomm Atheros mt76 WiFi Null Pointer Dereference Vulnerability”

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CVE-2025-38541 vulnerability over time.

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  • New CVE Received
    by 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67

    Aug. 16, 2025

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added 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.

    Added Reference https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/03ee8f73801a8f46d83dfc2bf73fb9ffa5a21602
    Added Reference https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1bbdf4213711bb6dc365e7628430a63dd3280794
    Added Reference https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2e99e9b34ece0b6d3e82cb757e9f60fa414da999
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