CVE-2025-38541: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 6.9, before 6.12.39 (fixed in 6.12.39); from 6.13, before 6.15.7 (fixed in 6.15.7); version 6.16 only

Published 2025-08-16. Last modified 2026-06-17.