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FKIE_CVE-2025-68197

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-12-16 14:15 - Updated: 2025-12-18 15:08

Severity ?

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bnxt_en: Fix null pointer dereference in bnxt_bs_trace_check_wrap() With older FW, we may get the ASYNC_EVENT_CMPL_EVENT_ID_DBG_BUF_PRODUCER for FW trace data type that has not been initialized. This will result in a crash in bnxt_bs_trace_type_wrap(). Add a guard to check for a valid magic_byte pointer before proceeding.

References

	URL	Tags
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/689ae5ba31293eebb7f21c0ef8939468ac72b5ce
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ff02be05f78399c766be68ab0b2285ff90b2aaa8

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	Vendor	Product	Version

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  "lastModified": "2025-12-18T15:08:25.907",
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CVE-2025-68197 (GCVE-0-2025-68197)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-16 13:43 – Updated: 2025-12-16 13:43

Title

bnxt_en: Fix null pointer dereference in bnxt_bs_trace_check_wrap()

Summary

Severity ?

No CVSS data available.

Assigner

Linux

References

URL

Tags

	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/689ae5ba31293eebb…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ff02be05f78399c76…

Impacted products

Vendor

Product

Version

Linux

Affected: 84fcd9449fd7882ddfb05ba64d75f9be2d29b2e9 , < 689ae5ba31293eebb7f21c0ef8939468ac72b5ce (git)
Affected: 84fcd9449fd7882ddfb05ba64d75f9be2d29b2e9 , < ff02be05f78399c766be68ab0b2285ff90b2aaa8 (git)

Linux

Affected: 6.13
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.13 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.17.8 , ≤ 6.17.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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CVE-2025-68197 (GCVE-0-2025-68197)

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