CVE-2025-38471
high
CVSS v3
7.8
CVSS v4 NEW
—
VIR risk
7.8
Description
Important: kernel security update
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
75%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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OS impact
Linux kernel Affected 3 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| 6.16 | Affected | — |
| 6.1 | Affected | — |
| — | Affected | 6.1 |
SUSE Affected 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| — | Affected | — |
Debian Mixed 6 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 6.12.41-1 |
| sid | Fixed | 6.16.3-1 |
| forky | Fixed | 6.16.3-1 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 0 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 6.1.147-1 |
| 11.0 | Affected | — |
AlmaLinux Fixed 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| 9 | Fixed | kernel-debug-devel-5.14.0-570.35.1.el9_6.aarch64.rpm |
Red Hat Fixed 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| 9 | Fixed | — |
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:13962
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:14497
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1f3a429c21e0e43e8b8c55d30701e91411a4df02
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4ab26bce3969f8fd925fe6f6f551e4d1a508c68b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/730fed2ff5e259495712518e18d9f521f61972bb
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c76f6f437c46b2390888e0e1dc7aafafa9f4e0c6
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cdb767915fc9a15d88d19d52a1455f1dc3e5ddc8
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00008.html
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-082556.html
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-38471.html
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-38471
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2355334
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2366125
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2375303
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2375304
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2376041
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2376064
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2378982
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2383381
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2383893
- https://errata.almalinux.org/9/ALSA-2025-13962.html
CWEs
CWE-416
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
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