In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/mlx5: Check device memory pointer before usage Add a NULL check before accessing device memory to prevent a crash if dev->dm allocation in mlx5_init_once() fails.

It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2023-2025-1169 advisory.

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    smb: client: Avoid race in open_cached_dir with lease breaks (CVE-2025-37954)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    netfilter: nft_set_pipapo: prevent overflow in lookup table allocation (CVE-2025-38162)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    exfat: fix double free in delayed_free (CVE-2025-38206)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    xfrm: interface: fix use-after-free after changing collect_md xfrm interface (CVE-2025-38500)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    net/sched: Restrict conditions for adding duplicating netems to qdisc tree (CVE-2025-38553)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    x86/sev: Evict cache lines during SNP memory validation (CVE-2025-38560)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    ipv6: reject malicious packets in ipv6_gso_segment() (CVE-2025-38572)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    ipv6: fix possible infinite loop in fib6_info_uses_dev() (CVE-2025-38587)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    ipv6: prevent infinite loop in rt6_nlmsg_size() (CVE-2025-38588)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    net/packet: fix a race in packet_set_ring() and packet_notifier() (CVE-2025-38617)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    vsock: Do not allow binding to VMADDR_PORT_ANY (CVE-2025-38618)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    net: drop UFO packets in udp_rcv_segment() (CVE-2025-38622)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    net/mlx5: Check device memory pointer before usage (CVE-2025-38645)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    proc: use the same treatment to check proc_lseek as ones for proc_read_iter et.al (CVE-2025-38653)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    can: netlink: can_changelink(): fix NULL pointer deref of struct can_priv::do_set_mode (CVE-2025-38665)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    NFS: Fix filehandle bounds checking in nfs_fh_to_dentry() (CVE-2025-39730)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

An update of the linux package has been released.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - net/mlx5: Check device memory pointer before usage Add a NULL check before accessing device memory to     prevent a crash if dev->dm allocation in mlx5_init_once() fails. (CVE-2025-38645)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
261737	Amazon Linux 2023 : bpftool, kernel, kernel-devel (ALAS2023-2025-1169)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	high
261144	Photon OS 5.0: Linux PHSA-2025-5.0-0610	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	high
260240	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-38645	Nessus	Misc.	medium

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