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CVE-2025-38281: wifi: mt76: mt7996: Add NULL check in mt7996_thermal_init

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-07-10 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-476

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mt76: mt7996: Add NULL check in mt7996_thermal_init devm_kasprintf() can return a NULL pointer on failure,but this returned value in mt7996_thermal_init() is not checked. Add NULL check in mt7996_thermal_init(), to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference error.

Affected products

• Linux kernel: from 6.14 before 6.15.3 — fixed in 6.15.3

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Linux kernel 6.15.3. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8340cb173750c1ea99cd643006b72f8b0e6c21f2
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/caf4b347c5dc40fdd125793b5e82ba9fc4de5275

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