CVE detail
CVE-2025-40116 — CVE-2025-40116
Published 2025-11-12 · Modified 2026-06-17 · Source nvd
UNKNOWN
severity
CVSS-derived band
0.0021
EPSS probability
exploitation probability, 30d
12.0%
EPSS percentile
percentile vs all CVEs
NOT LISTED
CISA KEV
known exploited catalog
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
usb: host: max3421-hcd: Fix error pointer dereference in probe cleanup
The kthread_run() function returns error pointers so the
max3421_hcd->spi_thread pointer can be either error pointers or NULL.
Check for both before dereferencing it.
Remediation
No vendor-published fix data in our corpus for this CVE. Check the references below or the vendor's PSIRT / security advisories page.
References