CVE-2025-38526 (GCVE-0-2025-38526)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-08-16 11:12 – Updated: 2026-08-05 12:02
VLAI
Title
ice: add NULL check in eswitch lag check
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ice: add NULL check in eswitch lag check The function ice_lag_is_switchdev_running() is being called from outside of the LAG event handler code. This results in the lag->upper_netdev being NULL sometimes. To avoid a NULL-pointer dereference, there needs to be a check before it is dereferenced.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 776fe19953b0e0af00399e50fb3b205101d4b3c1 , < 27591d926191e42b2332e4bad3bcd3a49def393b (git)
Affected: 776fe19953b0e0af00399e50fb3b205101d4b3c1 , < 5a5d64f0eec82076b2c09fee2195d640cfbe3379 (git)
Affected: 776fe19953b0e0af00399e50fb3b205101d4b3c1 , < 245917d3c5ed7c6ae720302b64eac5c6f0c85177 (git)
Affected: 776fe19953b0e0af00399e50fb3b205101d4b3c1 , < 3ce58b01ada408b372f15b7c992ed0519840e3cf (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.6
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.6 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.100 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.40 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.15.8 , ≤ 6.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.16 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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