CVE Catalog

CVE-2025-38526

HighCVSS 7.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.36%

28th percentile - higher than 28% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Intel Ethernet driver (ice), the function ice_lag_is_switchdev_running() can be called outside LAG event handler code, causing lag->upper_netdev to be NULL. Missing NULL check before dereference leads to a NULL-pointer dereference.

Risk Assessment

A system crash (oops) may occur due to NULL-pointer dereference, affecting network stability.

Recommendation

Apply the patch that adds a NULL check before dereferencing lag->upper_netdev in ice_lag_is_switchdev_running().

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ice: add NULL check in eswitch lag check The function ice_lag_is_switchdev_running() is being called from outside of the LAG event handler code. This results in the lag->upper_netdev being NULL sometimes. To avoid a NULL-pointer dereference, there needs to be a check before it is dereferenced.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS