NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting kernel-source-vanilla package, versions <6.12.0-160000.6.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.02% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES1600-KERNELSOURCEVANILLA-13935009
  • published13 Nov 2025
  • disclosed6 Nov 2025

Introduced: 6 Nov 2025

CVE-2025-38454  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:16.0.0 kernel-source-vanilla to version 6.12.0-160000.6.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-source-vanilla package and not the kernel-source-vanilla package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:16.0.0 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

ALSA: ad1816a: Fix potential NULL pointer deref in snd_card_ad1816a_pnp()

Use pr_warn() instead of dev_warn() when 'pdev' is NULL to avoid a potential NULL pointer dereference.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1