CVE-2025-38061

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

Unavailable / Other

Publication date:

18/06/2025

Last modified:

18/12/2025

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).

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::::::::		5.4.294 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.5 (including)	5.10.238 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.11 (including)	5.15.185 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.16 (including)	6.1.141 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	6.2 (including)	6.6.93 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	6.7 (including)	6.12.31 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	6.13 (including)	6.14.9 (excluding)
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-2025-38061

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools