In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: lpfc: Check for hdwq null ptr when cleaning up lpfc_vport structure If a call to lpfc_sli4_read_rev() from lpfc_sli4_hba_setup() fails, the resultant cleanup routine lpfc_sli4_vport_delete_fcp_xri_aborted() may occur before sli4_hba.hdwqs are allocated. This may result in a null pointer dereference when attempting to take the abts_io_buf_list_lock for the first hardware queue. Fix by adding a null ptr check on phba->sli4_hba.hdwq and early return because this situation means there must have been an error during port initialization.

An update of the linux package has been released.

The version of kernel installed on the remote host is prior to 5.4.298-218.429. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2KERNEL-5.4-2025-109 advisory.

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

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

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

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    regulator: core: fix NULL dereference on unbind due to stale coupling data (CVE-2025-38668)

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

    scsi: lpfc: Check for hdwq null ptr when cleaning up lpfc_vport structure (CVE-2025-38695)

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.

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

  - scsi: lpfc: Check for hdwq null ptr when cleaning up lpfc_vport structure If a call to     lpfc_sli4_read_rev() from lpfc_sli4_hba_setup() fails, the resultant cleanup routine     lpfc_sli4_vport_delete_fcp_xri_aborted() may occur before sli4_hba.hdwqs are allocated. This may result in     a null pointer dereference when attempting to take the abts_io_buf_list_lock for the first hardware queue.
    Fix by adding a null ptr check on phba->sli4_hba.hdwq and early return because this situation means there     must have been an error during port initialization. (CVE-2025-38695)

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

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
265433	Photon OS 4.0: Linux PHSA-2025-4.0-0864	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	high
265070	Amazon Linux 2 : kernel, --advisory ALAS2KERNEL-5.4-2025-109 (ALASKERNEL-5.4-2025-109)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	high
261581	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-38695	Nessus	Misc.	high

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