CVE-2025-37938 — NULL Pointer Dereference in Linux
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
OSV3.2
EPSS
0.1%
top 78.72%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedMay 20
Latest updateMar 25
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
tracing: Verify event formats that have "%*p.."
The trace event verifier checks the formats of trace events to make sure
that they do not point at memory that is not in the trace event itself or
in data that will never be freed. If an event references data that was
allocated when the event triggered and that same data is freed before the
event is read, then the kernel can crash by reading freed memory.
The verifier runs at bo…
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 3.6
Affected Packages11 packages
Also affects: Debian Linux 11.0