CVE-2025-40116 (GCVE-0-2025-40116)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-11-12 10:23 – Updated: 2026-05-11 21:42
VLAI
Title
usb: host: max3421-hcd: Fix error pointer dereference in probe cleanup
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 05dfa5c9bc37933181b619e42ec0eeb41ef31362 , < 89838fe5c6c010ff8d3924f22afd9c18c5c95310 (git)
Affected: 05dfa5c9bc37933181b619e42ec0eeb41ef31362 , < 3facf69a735e730ae36387f18780fe420708aa91 (git)
Affected: 05dfa5c9bc37933181b619e42ec0eeb41ef31362 , < e0e0ce06f3571be9b26790e4df56ba37b1de8543 (git)
Affected: 05dfa5c9bc37933181b619e42ec0eeb41ef31362 , < 3723c3dda1cc82c9bbca08fcbd46705a361bfd56 (git)
Affected: 05dfa5c9bc37933181b619e42ec0eeb41ef31362 , < b0439e3762ac9ea580f714e1504a1827d1ad32f5 (git)
Affected: 05dfa5c9bc37933181b619e42ec0eeb41ef31362 , < e68ea6de1d0551f90d7a2c75f82cb3ebe5e397dc (git)
Affected: 05dfa5c9bc37933181b619e42ec0eeb41ef31362 , < b682ce44bf20ada752a2f6ce70d5a575c56f6a35 (git)
Affected: 05dfa5c9bc37933181b619e42ec0eeb41ef31362 , < 186e8f2bdba551f3ae23396caccd452d985c23e3 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 3.16
Unaffected: 0 , < 3.16 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4.301 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.246 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.195 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.156 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.112 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.53 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.17.3 , ≤ 6.17.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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