# CVE-2025-39676: scsi: qla4xxx: Prevent a potential error pointer dereference

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2025-09-05 · Updated: 2026-05-12

## Affected

- Linux: version range not reported
- Linux: 3.2

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: qla4xxx: Prevent a potential error pointer dereference The qla4xxx_get_ep_fwdb() function is supposed to return NULL on error, but qla4xxx_ep_connect() returns error pointers. Propagating the error pointers will lead to an Oops in the caller, so change the error pointers to NULL.

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## Related

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## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d0225f41ee70611ca88ccb22c8542ecdfa7faea8
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ad8a9d38d30c691a77c456e72b78f7932d4f234d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/325bf7d57c4e2a341e381c5805e454fb69dd78c3
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/46288d12d1c30d08fbeffd05abc079f57a43a2d4
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f5ad0819f902b4b33591791b92a0350fb3692a6b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f1424c830d6ce840341aac33fe99c8ac45447ac1
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f4bc3cdfe95115191e24592bbfc15f1d4a705a75
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9dcf111dd3e7ed5fce82bb108e3a3fc001c07225

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