CVE-2025-38251

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference

Publication date:

09/07/2025

Last modified:

18/12/2025

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: atm: clip: prevent NULL deref in clip_push() Blamed commit missed that vcc_destroy_socket() calls clip_push() with a NULL skb. If clip_devs is NULL, clip_push() then crashes when reading skb->truesize.

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::::::::	5.7.1 (including)	5.10.240 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.11 (including)	5.15.187 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.16 (including)	6.1.143 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	6.2 (including)	6.6.96 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	6.7 (including)	6.12.36 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	6.13 (including)	6.15.5 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.7:-::::::
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.7:rc5::::::
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.7:rc6::::::
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.7:rc7::::::
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.16:rc1::::::
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.16:rc2::::::
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.16:rc3::::::
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:11.0:::::::*

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CVE-2025-38251

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

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