CVE-2025-38684
medium
CVSS v3
5.5
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
5.5
Description
Important: kernel security update
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
55%
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 2 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| 6.17 | Affected | — |
| — | Affected | 5.5 |
SUSE Affected 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| — | Affected | — |
Debian Mixed 6 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 6.12.43-1 |
| sid | Fixed | 6.16.3-1 |
| forky | Fixed | 6.16.3-1 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 5.10.244-1 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 6.1.153-1 |
| 11.0 | Affected | — |
AlmaLinux Fixed 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| 9 | Fixed | kernel-64k-devel-matched-5.14.0-570.39.1.el9_6.aarch64.rpm |
Red Hat Fixed 2 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| 9 | Fixed | — |
| 8 | Fixed | — |
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:15011
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5b3b346bc4c2aa2c428735438a11989d251f32f1
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/84a24fb446ee07b22b64aae6f0e3f4a38266310a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/87c6efc5ce9c126ae4a781bc04504b83780e3650
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/970c1c731c4ede46d05f5b0355724d1e400cfbca
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/97ec167cd2e8a81a2d87331a2ed92daf007542c8
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bdfddcde86e8b9245d9c0c2efe2b6fe8dcf6bf41
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/be9692dafdfb36d9c43afd9d4e1d9d9ba8e7b51b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d69f4a258cd91b3bcef7089eb0401005aae2aed5
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00007.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00008.html
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-032379.html
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-38684.html
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-38684
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2365024
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2376392
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2376406
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2382054
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2383509
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2383513
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2387866
- https://errata.almalinux.org/9/ALSA-2025-15011.html
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:15785
CWEs
CWE-476
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