{"id":"CVE-2025-39856","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2025-39856","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T04:46:01.368Z","title":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: ethernet: ti: am65-cpsw-nuss: Fix null pointer dereference for ndev In the TX completion packet stage of TI SoCs with CPSW2G instance, which has single external ethernet port, ndev…","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: ethernet: ti: am65-cpsw-nuss: Fix null pointer dereference for ndev\n\nIn the TX completion packet stage of TI SoCs with CPSW2G instance, which\nhas single external ethernet port, ndev is accessed without being\ninitialized if no TX packets have been processed. It results into null\npointer dereference, causing kernel to crash. Fix this by having a check\non the number of TX packets which have been processed.","published":"2025-09-19T16:15:45.000Z","lastModified":"2026-10-19T21:10:00.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":5.5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-476"],"affected":["linux/linux kernel"],"epss":{"score":0.0013,"percentile":0.02637,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.13%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/485302905bada953aadfe063320d73c892a66cbb","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a6099f263e1f408bcc7913c9df24b0677164fc5d","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-39856","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}