CVE-2025-38693CWE-476

CVE-2025-38693

Medium · published September 4, 2025

CVSS v3.1
5.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
6.7
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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()")

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00176 · 6.7th percentile
Weakness
CWE-476 · NULL Pointer Dereference
Published
2025-09-04T20:15Z
Affected products (9)
ProductVersionsFixed in
linux/linux_kernel≥ 2.6.39, < 5.4.2975.4.297
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.5, < 5.10.2415.10.241
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.11, < 5.15.1905.15.190
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.16, < 6.1.1496.1.149
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.2, < 6.6.1036.6.103
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.7, < 6.12.436.12.43
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.13, < 6.15.116.15.11
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.16, < 6.16.26.16.2
debian/debian_linuxall versions—
References (12)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 04 SEP 15:32Z
    media: dvb-frontends: w7090p: fix null-ptr-deref in w7090p_tuner_write_serpar and w7090p_tuner_read_serpar
    cvelistv5