CVE-2025-38134

usb: acpi: Prevent null pointer dereference in usb_acpi_add_usb4_devlink()

published July 3, 2025

CVSS
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EPSS
0%
Percentile
7.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

usb: acpi: Prevent null pointer dereference in usb_acpi_add_usb4_devlink()

As demonstrated by the fix for update_port_device_state,

commit 12783c0b9e2c ("usb: core: Prevent null pointer dereference in update_port_device_state"),

usb_hub_to_struct_hub() can return NULL in certain scenarios,

such as during hub driver unbind or teardown race conditions,

even if the underlying usb_device structure exists.

Plus, all other places that call usb_hub_to_struct_hub() in the same file

do check for NULL return values.

If usb_hub_to_struct_hub() returns NULL, the subsequent access to

hub->ports[udev->portnum - 1] will cause a null pointer dereference.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00187 · 7.8th percentile
Published
2025-07-03T08:35Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 03 JUL 08:35Z
    usb: acpi: Prevent null pointer dereference in usb_acpi_add_usb4_devlink()
    cvelistv5