CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-38061
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2025-06-18
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: pktgen: fix access outside of user given buffer in pktgen_thread_write()
Honour the user given buffer size for the strn_len() calls (otherwise
strn_len() will access memory outside of the user given buffer).
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 5.4.294)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.238)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.185)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.141)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.93)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.31)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.14.9)
• debian debian linux 11.0
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/128cdb617a87767c29be43e4431129942fce41df Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/425e64440ad0a2f03bdaf04be0ae53dededbaa77 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5bfa81539e22af4c40ae5d43d7212253462383a6 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6b1d3e9db82d01a88de1795b879df67c2116b4f4 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8fef258b555c75a467a6b4b7e3a3cbc46d5f4102 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a3d89f1cfe1e6d4bb164db2595511fd33db21900 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c81c2ee1c3b050ed5c4e92876590cc7a259183f6 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ef1158a6a650ecee72ab40851b1d52e04d3f9cb5 Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00007.html Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00008.html Third Party Advisory