Riskcovery

CVE-2025-38641

Bluetooth: btusb: Fix potential NULL dereference on kmalloc failure

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Aug 22, 2025
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
Apr 16, 2025

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

Bluetooth: btusb: Fix potential NULL dereference on kmalloc failure

Avoid potential NULL pointer dereference by checking the return value of kmalloc and handling allocation failure properly.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 7d70989fcea7f79afe018a7e34d3486406c7a94e to before 5029d80bfc30b60ff57c70ccb04e027acb404f6aAffected
  • 7d70989fcea7f79afe018a7e34d3486406c7a94e to before b505902c66a282dcb01bcdc015aa1fdfaaa075dbAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.16Affected
  • before 6.16Not affected
  • 6.16.1 through 6.16.*Not affected
  • 6.17 and laterNot affected

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