NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting kernel-uek-modules-usb package, versions <0:6.12.0-207.111.5.1.el10uek


Severity

Recommended
high

Based on Oracle Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.2% (10th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ORACLE10-KERNELUEKMODULESUSB-20582681
  • published8 Oct 2026
  • disclosed10 Jul 2025

Introduced: 10 Jul 2025

CVE-2025-38266  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Oracle:10 kernel-uek-modules-usb to version 0:6.12.0-207.111.5.1.el10uek or higher.
This issue was patched in ELSA-2026-500374.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-uek-modules-usb package and not the kernel-uek-modules-usb package as distributed by Oracle. See How to fix? for Oracle:10 relevant fixed versions and status.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

pinctrl: mediatek: eint: Fix invalid pointer dereference for v1 platforms

Commit 3ef9f710efcb ("pinctrl: mediatek: Add EINT support for multiple addresses") introduced an access to the 'soc' field of struct mtk_pinctrl in mtk_eint_do_init() and for that an include of pinctrl-mtk-common-v2.h.

However, pinctrl drivers relying on the v1 common driver include pinctrl-mtk-common.h instead, which provides another definition of struct mtk_pinctrl that does not contain an 'soc' field.

Since mtk_eint_do_init() can be called both by v1 and v2 drivers, it will now try to dereference an invalid pointer when called on v1 platforms. This has been observed on Genio 350 EVK (MT8365), which crashes very early in boot (the kernel trace can only be seen with earlycon).

In order to fix this, since 'struct mtk_pinctrl' was only needed to get a 'struct mtk_eint_pin', make 'struct mtk_eint_pin' a parameter of mtk_eint_do_init() so that callers need to supply it, removing mtk_eint_do_init()'s dependency on any particular 'struct mtk_pinctrl'.

CVSS Base Scores

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