CVE-2025-38641

Published: Aug 22, 2025

Modified: May 11, 2026

PUBLISHED

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.

Vendor	Product	Versions
Linux	Linux	affected `7d70989fcea7f79afe018a7e34d3486406c7a94e - < 5029d80bfc30b60ff57c70ccb04e027acb404f6a` affected `7d70989fcea7f79afe018a7e34d3486406c7a94e - < b505902c66a282dcb01bcdc015aa1fdfaaa075db`
Linux	Linux	affected `6.16` unaffected `0 - < 6.16` unaffected `6.16.1 - <= 6.16.` unaffected `6.17 - <= `

References

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

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b505902c66a282dcb01bcdc015aa1fdfaaa075db

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CVE-2025-38641

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