CVE-2025-38655: 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: pinctrl: canaan: k230: add NULL check in DT parse Add a NULL check for the return value of of_get_property() when retrieving the "pinmux" property in the group parser. This avoids a potential NULL pointer dereference if the property is missing from the device tree node. Also fix a typo ("sintenel") in the device ID match table comment, correcting it to "sentinel".

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.