CVE-2025-38629: 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: ALSA: usb: scarlett2: Fix missing NULL check scarlett2_input_select_ctl_info() sets up the string arrays allocated via kasprintf(), but it misses NULL checks, which may lead to NULL dereference Oops. Let's add the proper NULL check.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 6.13, before 6.15.10 (fixed in 6.15.10); from 6.16, before 6.16.1 (fixed in 6.16.1)

Published 2025-08-22. Last modified 2026-06-17.