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CVE-2025-38641: Bluetooth: btusb: Fix potential NULL dereference on kmalloc failure

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-08-22 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-476

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.

Affected products

• Linux kernel: 6.16

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5029d80bfc30b60ff57c70ccb04e027acb404f6a
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b505902c66a282dcb01bcdc015aa1fdfaaa075db

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