CVE-2025-38452

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference

Publication date:

25/07/2025

Last modified:

19/11/2025

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: ethernet: rtsn: Fix a null pointer dereference in rtsn_probe() Add check for the return value of rcar_gen4_ptp_alloc() to prevent potential null pointer dereference.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.50 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): Low
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x

5.50

Severity 3.x

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	6.11 (including)	6.12.39 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	6.13 (including)	6.15.7 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.16:rc1::::::
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.16:rc2::::::
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.16:rc3::::::
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.16:rc4::::::
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.16:rc5::::::

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

CVE-2025-38452

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

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