CVE-2025-38693

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference

Publication date:

04/09/2025

Last modified:

09/01/2026

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: dvb-frontends: w7090p: fix null-ptr-deref in w7090p_tuner_write_serpar and w7090p_tuner_read_serpar In w7090p_tuner_write_serpar, msg is controlled by user. When msg[0].buf is null and msg[0].len is zero, former checks on msg[0].buf would be passed. If accessing msg[0].buf[2] without sanity check, null pointer deref would happen. We add check on msg[0].len to prevent crash. Similar commit: commit 0ed554fd769a ("media: dvb-usb: az6027: fix null-ptr-deref in az6027_i2c_xfer()")

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::::::::	2.6.39 (including)	5.4.297 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.5 (including)	5.10.241 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.11 (including)	5.15.190 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.16 (including)	6.1.149 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	6.2 (including)	6.6.103 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	6.7 (including)	6.12.43 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	6.13 (including)	6.15.11 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	6.16 (including)	6.16.2 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:11.0:::::::*

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CVE-2025-38693

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

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