CVE-2025-38077

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write

Publication date:

18/06/2025

Last modified:

17/12/2025

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 &#39;buf&#39; array received from the user contains an empty string, the &#39;length&#39; variable will be zero. Accessing the &#39;buf&#39; array element with index &#39;length - 1&#39; will result in a buffer overflow. Add a check for an empty string. Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.

Impact

Vector 3.x

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

Base Score: 7.80 HIGH
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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

Base Score 3.x

7.80

Severity 3.x

HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
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:linux:linux_kernel:6.15:rc1::::::
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.15:rc2::::::
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.15:rc3::::::
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.15:rc4::::::
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.15:rc5::::::
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.15:rc6::::::
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.15:rc7::::::
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:11.0:::::::*

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CVE-2025-38077

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools