CVE-2025-40116

usb: host: max3421-hcd: Fix error pointer dereference in probe cleanup

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Nov 12, 2025
Updated: May 11, 2026
Reserved: Apr 16, 2025

Description

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

usb: host: max3421-hcd: Fix error pointer dereference in probe cleanup

The kthread_run() function returns error pointers so the max3421_hcd->spi_thread pointer can be either error pointers or NULL. Check for both before dereferencing it.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
LinuxLinux	05dfa5c9bc37933181b619e42ec0eeb41ef31362 to before 89838fe5c6c010ff8d3924f22afd9c18c5c95310Affected 05dfa5c9bc37933181b619e42ec0eeb41ef31362 to before 3facf69a735e730ae36387f18780fe420708aa91Affected 05dfa5c9bc37933181b619e42ec0eeb41ef31362 to before e0e0ce06f3571be9b26790e4df56ba37b1de8543Affected 05dfa5c9bc37933181b619e42ec0eeb41ef31362 to before 3723c3dda1cc82c9bbca08fcbd46705a361bfd56Affected 05dfa5c9bc37933181b619e42ec0eeb41ef31362 to before b0439e3762ac9ea580f714e1504a1827d1ad32f5Affected 05dfa5c9bc37933181b619e42ec0eeb41ef31362 to before e68ea6de1d0551f90d7a2c75f82cb3ebe5e397dcAffected 05dfa5c9bc37933181b619e42ec0eeb41ef31362 to before b682ce44bf20ada752a2f6ce70d5a575c56f6a35Affected 05dfa5c9bc37933181b619e42ec0eeb41ef31362 to before 186e8f2bdba551f3ae23396caccd452d985c23e3Affected
LinuxLinux	3.16Affected before 3.16Not affected 5.4.301 through 5.4.Not affected 5.10.246 through 5.10.Not affected 5.15.195 through 5.15.Not affected 6.1.156 through 6.1.Not affected 6.6.112 through 6.6.Not affected 6.12.53 through 6.12.Not affected 6.17.3 through 6.17.*Not affected 6.18 and laterNot affected

Product

Versions

LinuxLinux

05dfa5c9bc37933181b619e42ec0eeb41ef31362 to before 89838fe5c6c010ff8d3924f22afd9c18c5c95310Affected
05dfa5c9bc37933181b619e42ec0eeb41ef31362 to before 3facf69a735e730ae36387f18780fe420708aa91Affected
05dfa5c9bc37933181b619e42ec0eeb41ef31362 to before e0e0ce06f3571be9b26790e4df56ba37b1de8543Affected
05dfa5c9bc37933181b619e42ec0eeb41ef31362 to before 3723c3dda1cc82c9bbca08fcbd46705a361bfd56Affected
05dfa5c9bc37933181b619e42ec0eeb41ef31362 to before b0439e3762ac9ea580f714e1504a1827d1ad32f5Affected
05dfa5c9bc37933181b619e42ec0eeb41ef31362 to before e68ea6de1d0551f90d7a2c75f82cb3ebe5e397dcAffected
05dfa5c9bc37933181b619e42ec0eeb41ef31362 to before b682ce44bf20ada752a2f6ce70d5a575c56f6a35Affected
05dfa5c9bc37933181b619e42ec0eeb41ef31362 to before 186e8f2bdba551f3ae23396caccd452d985c23e3Affected

LinuxLinux

3.16Affected
before 3.16Not affected
5.4.301 through 5.4.*Not affected
5.10.246 through 5.10.*Not affected
5.15.195 through 5.15.*Not affected
6.1.156 through 6.1.*Not affected
6.6.112 through 6.6.*Not affected
6.12.53 through 6.12.*Not affected
6.17.3 through 6.17.*Not affected
6.18 and laterNot affected

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