CVE-2025-38368: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: misc: tps6594-pfsm: Add NULL pointer check in tps6594_pfsm_probe() The returned value, pfsm->miscdev.name, from devm_kasprintf() could be NULL. A pointer check is added to prevent potential NULL pointer dereference. This is similar to the fix in commit 3027e7b15b02 ("ice: Fix some null pointer dereference issues in ice_ptp.c"). This issue is found by our static analysis tool.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 6.5, before 6.6.96 (fixed in 6.6.96); from 6.7, before 6.12.36 (fixed in 6.12.36); from 6.13, before 6.15.5 (fixed in 6.15.5)

Published 2025-07-25. Last modified 2026-06-17.