CVE-2025-38197

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference

Publication date:

04/07/2025

Last modified:

18/12/2025

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: platform/x86: dell_rbu: Fix list usage Pass the correct list head to list_for_each_entry*() when looping through the packet list. Without this patch, reading the packet data via sysfs will show the data incorrectly (because it starts at the wrong packet), and clearing the packet list will result in a NULL pointer dereference.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.50 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): Low
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x

5.50

Severity 3.x

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.7 (including)	5.10.239 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.11 (including)	5.15.186 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.16 (including)	6.1.142 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	6.2 (including)	6.6.95 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	6.7 (including)	6.12.35 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	6.13 (including)	6.15.4 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.16:rc1::::::
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.16:rc2::::::
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:11.0:::::::*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

CVE-2025-38197

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

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