CVE-2025-38645

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: net/mlx5: Check device memory pointer before usage Add a NULL check before accessing device memory to prevent a crash if dev->dm allocation in mlx5_init_once() fails.

Weakness Classification (1)

Affected Software (10)

VendorProductVersion
Linux Linux c9b9dcb430b3cd0ad2b04c360c4e528d73430481 < 9053a69abfb5680c2a95292b96df5d204bc0776f
Linux Linux c9b9dcb430b3cd0ad2b04c360c4e528d73430481 < eebb225fe6c9103293807b8edabcbad59f9589bc
Linux Linux c9b9dcb430b3cd0ad2b04c360c4e528d73430481 < 62d7cf455c887941ed6f105cd430ba04ee0b6c9f
Linux Linux c9b9dcb430b3cd0ad2b04c360c4e528d73430481 < 4249f1307932f1b6bbb8b7eba60d82f0b7e44430
Linux Linux c9b9dcb430b3cd0ad2b04c360c4e528d73430481 < 3046b011d368162b1b9ca9453eee0fea930e0a93
Linux Linux c9b9dcb430b3cd0ad2b04c360c4e528d73430481 < da899a1fd7c40e2e4302af1db7d0b8540fb22283
Linux Linux c9b9dcb430b3cd0ad2b04c360c4e528d73430481 < 70f238c902b8c0461ae6fbb8d1a0bbddc4350eea
Linux Linux 5.4
debian debian_linux 11.0
linux linux_kernel 5.4 – 5.15.190

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

0.18%
Raw Score 0.001760
Percentile 7.2%
Date 2026-11-13

EPSS Trend

2026-11-13
0.00176
2026-11-12
0.00176
2026-11-10
0.00166
2026-11-09
0.00166
2026-11-08
0.00166
2026-11-07
0.00166
2026-11-06
0.00166
2026-11-05
0.00166

Intelligence Sources

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