CVE-2025-38138

Updated on 03 Jul 2025

Severity

5.5 Medium severity

Details

CVSS score
5.5
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Overview

About vulnerability

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

dmaengine: ti: Add NULL check in udma_probe()

devm_kasprintf() returns NULL when memory allocation fails. Currently, udma_probe() does not check for this case, which results in a NULL pointer dereference.

Add NULL check after devm_kasprintf() to prevent this issue.

Details

Affected product:
AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU , TuxCare 9.6 ESU
Affected packages:
kernel @ 5.14.0 (+1 more)

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

dmaengine: ti: Add NULL check in udma_probe()

devm_kasprintf() returns NULL when memory allocation fails. Currently, udma_probe() does not check for this case, which results in a NULL pointer dereference.

Add NULL check after devm_kasprintf() to prevent this issue.

Fixes