Security Advisory

CVE-2025-39858

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2025-09-19 15:26:28
Last updated 2026-05-11 21:37:48
Assigner Linux
State PUBLISHED

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: eth: mlx4: Fix IS_ERR() vs NULL check bug in mlx4_en_create_rx_ring Replace NULL check with IS_ERR() check after calling page_pool_create() since this function returns error pointers (ERR_PTR). Using NULL check could lead to invalid pointer dereference.