CVE-2025-39856

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference

Publication date:

19/09/2025

Last modified:

11/12/2025

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: ethernet: ti: am65-cpsw-nuss: Fix null pointer dereference for ndev In the TX completion packet stage of TI SoCs with CPSW2G instance, which has single external ethernet port, ndev is accessed without being initialized if no TX packets have been processed. It results into null pointer dereference, causing kernel to crash. Fix this by having a check on the number of TX packets which have been processed.

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::::::::	6.15 (including)	6.16.6 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.17:rc1::::::
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.17:rc2::::::
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.17:rc3::::::
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.17:rc4::::::

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

CVE-2025-39856

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools