Security Advisory

CVE-2025-21975

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2025-04-01 15:47:06
Last updated 2026-05-11 21:10:12
Assigner Linux
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/mlx5: handle errors in mlx5_chains_create_table() In mlx5_chains_create_table(), the return value of mlx5_get_fdb_sub_ns() and mlx5_get_flow_namespace() must be checked to prevent NULL pointer dereferences. If either function fails, the function should log error message with mlx5_core_warn() and return error pointer.