CVE-2025-39856

CVSS v3 5.5 MEDIUM

5.5^/10

CVSS v3 : MEDIUM

Vector :

Exploitability : 1.8 / Impact : 3.6

Attack Vector LOCAL

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required LOW

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact NONE

Integrity Impact NONE

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

I

n the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: ethernet: ti: am65-cpsw-nuss: Fix null pointer dereference for ndev In the TX completion packet stage of TI SoCs with CPSW2G instance, which has single external ethernet port, ndev is accessed without being initialized if no TX packets have been processed. It results into null pointer dereference, causing kernel to crash. Fix this by having a check on the number of TX packets which have been processed.

References

Link	Resource
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/485302905bada953aadfe063320d73c892a66cbb	Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a6099f263e1f408bcc7913c9df24b0677164fc5d	Patch

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

OR	cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::
	cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.17:rc1::::::
	cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.17:rc2::::::
	cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.17:rc3::::::
	cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.17:rc4::::::

History

11 Dec 2025, 19:35

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
CWE		CWE-476
References	~~() https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/485302905bada953aadfe063320d73c892a66cbb -~~	() https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/485302905bada953aadfe063320d73c892a66cbb - Patch
References	~~() https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a6099f263e1f408bcc7913c9df24b0677164fc5d -~~	() https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a6099f263e1f408bcc7913c9df24b0677164fc5d - Patch
CVSS	v2 : ~~unknown~~ v3 : ~~unknown~~	v2 : unknown v3 : 5.5
First Time		Linux linux Kernel Linux
CPE		cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.17:rc2:::::: cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.17:rc1:::::: cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.17:rc3:::::: cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:::::::: cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.17:rc4::::::

22 Sep 2025, 21:23

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
New CVE

Information

Published : 2025-09-19 16:15

Updated : 2026-01-14 20:16

NVD link : CVE-2025-39856

Mitre link : CVE-2025-39856

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2025-39856

JSON object : View

Products Affected

linux_kernel

CWE

CWE-476

NULL Pointer Dereference

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