CVE-2025-38629 (GCVE-0-2025-38629)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-08-22 16:00 – Updated: 2025-09-29 05:55
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Title
ALSA: usb: scarlett2: Fix missing NULL check
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: usb: scarlett2: Fix missing NULL check scarlett2_input_select_ctl_info() sets up the string arrays allocated via kasprintf(), but it misses NULL checks, which may lead to NULL dereference Oops. Let's add the proper NULL check.
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Linux Linux Affected: 8eba063b5b2b498ddd01ea6f29fc9b12368c3d53 , < d558db85920b124bac36f8a7ddc5de0aa7491bdd (git)
Affected: 8eba063b5b2b498ddd01ea6f29fc9b12368c3d53 , < 2c735fcaee81ad8056960659dc9dc460891e76b0 (git)
Affected: 8eba063b5b2b498ddd01ea6f29fc9b12368c3d53 , < df485a4b2b3ee5b35c80f990beb554e38a8a5fb1 (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 6.13
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.13 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.15.10 , ≤ 6.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.16.1 , ≤ 6.16.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.17 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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