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CVE-2025-38122

gve: add missing NULL check for gve_alloc_pending_packet() in TX DQO PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: gve: add missing NULL check for gve_alloc_pending_packet() in TX DQO gve_alloc_pending_packet() can return NULL, but gve_tx_add_skb_dqo() did not check for this case before dereferencing the returned pointer. Add a missing NULL check to prevent a potential NULL pointer dereference when allocation fails. This improves robustness in low-memory scenarios.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected a57e5de476be0b4b7f42beb6a21c19ad9c577aa3 before ae98a1787fdcb0096d122bc80d93c3c7d812c04b; affected a57e5de476be0b4b7f42beb6a21c19ad9c577aa3 before 2e5ead9e4e91fbe7799bd38afd8904543be1cb51; affected a57e5de476be0b4b7f42beb6a21c19ad9c577aa3 before 7f6265fce3bd424ded666481b37f106d7915fb6b; affected a57e5de476be0b4b7f42beb6a21c19ad9c577aa3 before a0319c9b1648a67511e947a596ca86888451c0a7; affected a57e5de476be0b4b7f42beb6a21c19ad9c577aa3 before c741a7ef68023ac800054e2131c3e22e647fd7e3; affected a57e5de476be0b4b7f42beb6a21c19ad9c577aa3 before 12c331b29c7397ac3b03584e12902990693bc248
Linux / Linuxaffected 5.14; unaffected 0 before 5.14; unaffected 5.15.186 through 5.15.*; unaffected 6.1.142 through 6.1.*; unaffected 6.6.94 through 6.6.*; unaffected 6.12.34 through 6.12.*; unaffected 6.15.3 through 6.15.*; unaffected 6.16 through *

CWE

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References

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