# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-38281"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-07-10T07:41:59.518Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:24:50.485Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:34.152Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38281"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38281.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38281"
title: "wifi: mt76: mt7996: Add NULL check in mt7996_thermal_init"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: mt76: mt7996: Add NULL check in mt7996_thermal_init\n\ndevm_kasprintf() can return a NULL pointer on failure,but this\nreturned value in mt7996_thermal_init() is not checked.\nAdd NULL check in mt7996_thermal_init(), to handle kernel NULL\npointer dereference error."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"69d54ce7491d046eaae05de7fb2493319a481991","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8340cb173750c1ea99cd643006b72f8b0e6c21f2"},{"version":"69d54ce7491d046eaae05de7fb2493319a481991","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"caf4b347c5dc40fdd125793b5e82ba9fc4de5275"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.14","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.14"},{"version":"6.15.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.15.*"},{"version":"6.16","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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