CVE-2025-40116

usb: host: max3421-hcd: Fix error pointer dereference in probe cleanup

At a glance

Severity
Not available
EPSS
EPSS 0.22 % · percentile 13 (2026-10-27)
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Deferred

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: usb: host: max3421-hcd: Fix error pointer dereference in probe cleanup The kthread_run() function returns error pointers so the max3421_hcd->spi_thread pointer can be either error pointers or NULL. Check for both before dereferencing it.

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected 05dfa5c9bc37933181b619e42ec0eeb41ef31362 < 89838fe5c6c010ff8d3924f22afd9c18c5c95310 ; affected 05dfa5c9bc37933181b619e42ec0eeb41ef31362 < 3facf69a735e730ae36387f18780fe420708aa91 ; affected 05dfa5c9bc37933181b619e42ec0eeb41ef31362 < e0e0ce06f3571be9b26790e4df56ba37b1de8543 ; affected 05dfa5c9bc37933181b619e42ec0eeb41ef31362 < 3723c3dda1cc82c9bbca08fcbd46705a361bfd56 ; affected 05dfa5c9bc37933181b619e42ec0eeb41ef31362 < b0439e3762ac9ea580f714e1504a1827d1ad32f5 ; affected 05dfa5c9bc37933181b619e42ec0eeb41ef31362 < e68ea6de1d0551f90d7a2c75f82cb3ebe5e397dc
Linux · Linuxaffected 3.16 ; unaffected 0 < 3.16 ; unaffected 5.4.301 ≤ 5.4.* ; unaffected 5.10.246 ≤ 5.10.* ; unaffected 5.15.195 ≤ 5.15.* ; unaffected 6.1.156 ≤ 6.1.*

References

Sources

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CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
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CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD