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CVE-2025-40116

usb: host: max3421-hcd: Fix error pointer dereference in probe cleanup PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

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.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected 05dfa5c9bc37933181b619e42ec0eeb41ef31362 before 89838fe5c6c010ff8d3924f22afd9c18c5c95310; affected 05dfa5c9bc37933181b619e42ec0eeb41ef31362 before 3facf69a735e730ae36387f18780fe420708aa91; affected 05dfa5c9bc37933181b619e42ec0eeb41ef31362 before e0e0ce06f3571be9b26790e4df56ba37b1de8543; affected 05dfa5c9bc37933181b619e42ec0eeb41ef31362 before 3723c3dda1cc82c9bbca08fcbd46705a361bfd56; affected 05dfa5c9bc37933181b619e42ec0eeb41ef31362 before b0439e3762ac9ea580f714e1504a1827d1ad32f5; affected 05dfa5c9bc37933181b619e42ec0eeb41ef31362 before e68ea6de1d0551f90d7a2c75f82cb3ebe5e397dc; affected 05dfa5c9bc37933181b619e42ec0eeb41ef31362 before b682ce44bf20ada752a2f6ce70d5a575c56f6a35; affected 05dfa5c9bc37933181b619e42ec0eeb41ef31362 before 186e8f2bdba551f3ae23396caccd452d985c23e3
Linux / Linuxaffected 3.16; unaffected 0 before 3.16; unaffected 5.4.301 through 5.4.*; unaffected 5.10.246 through 5.10.*; unaffected 5.15.195 through 5.15.*; unaffected 6.1.156 through 6.1.*; unaffected 6.6.112 through 6.6.*; unaffected 6.12.53 through 6.12.*; unaffected 6.17.3 through 6.17.*; unaffected 6.18 through *

CWE

No CWE identifiers supplied.

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