CVEvulnerability

CVE-2025-38077

7.8 HIGH Published 2025-06-18 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2025-06-18
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-787

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: platform/x86: dell-wmi-sysman: Avoid buffer overflow in current_password_store() If the 'buf' array received from the user contains an empty string, the 'length' variable will be zero. Accessing the 'buf' array element with index 'length - 1' will result in a buffer overflow. Add a check for an empty string. Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.

Affected configurations

• 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) • linux linux kernel 6.15 • debian debian linux 11.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness

References