CVE-2025-38454 (GCVE-0-2025-38454)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-07-25 15:27 – Updated: 2026-05-11 21:28
VLAI
Title
ALSA: ad1816a: Fix potential NULL pointer deref in snd_card_ad1816a_pnp()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: ad1816a: Fix potential NULL pointer deref in snd_card_ad1816a_pnp() Use pr_warn() instead of dev_warn() when 'pdev' is NULL to avoid a potential NULL pointer dereference.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 20869176d7a7509bad9ea6b895469aebea9c8f21 , < e14bffc90866596ba19ffe549f199d7870da4241 (git)
Affected: 20869176d7a7509bad9ea6b895469aebea9c8f21 , < ef84c94d11ff972ecc3507f1ed092046bf6204b2 (git)
Affected: 20869176d7a7509bad9ea6b895469aebea9c8f21 , < 043faef334a1f3d96ae88e1b7618bfa2b4946388 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.12
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.12 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.39 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.15.7 , ≤ 6.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.16 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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