CVE-2025-38641

MEDIUM
MEDIUM Priority: 0.01 BB Relevance: 36/100
Published: 2025-08-22 Modified: 2026-11-05 First seen: 2026-11-05 Status: active

Attack Surface

Low Complexity No Interaction

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV: Local
AC: Low
PR: Low
UI: None
S: Unchanged
C: None
I: None
A: High

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.

Weakness Classification (1)

Affected Software (4)

VendorProductVersion
Linux Linux 7d70989fcea7f79afe018a7e34d3486406c7a94e < 5029d80bfc30b60ff57c70ccb04e027acb404f6a
Linux Linux 7d70989fcea7f79afe018a7e34d3486406c7a94e < b505902c66a282dcb01bcdc015aa1fdfaaa075db
Linux Linux 6.16
linux linux_kernel 6.16

Bug Bounty Relevance

36 / 100
✓ Low complexity
✓ No user interaction

CVSS Score

5.5 / 10.0 v3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS — Exploitation Probability

0.15%
Raw Score 0.001480
Percentile 4.1%
Date 2026-11-14

EPSS Trend

2026-11-14
0.00148
2026-11-13
0.00148
2026-11-12
0.00148
2026-11-10
0.00140
2026-11-09
0.00140
2026-11-08
0.00140
2026-11-07
0.00140
2026-11-06
0.00140
2026-11-05
0.00140

Intelligence Sources

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