CVE-2025-38196 — Improper Validation of Specified Index, Position, or Offset in Input in Linux
CWE-1285 — Improper Validation of Specified Index, Position, or Offset in Input17 documents6 sources
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
OSV5.6
EPSS
0.1%
top 77.93%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedJul 4
Latest updateNov 4
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
io_uring/rsrc: validate buffer count with offset for cloning
syzbot reports that it can trigger a WARN_ON() for kmalloc() attempt
that's too big:
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 6488 at mm/slub.c:5024 __kvmalloc_node_noprof+0x520/0x640 mm/slub.c:5024
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 6488 Comm: syz-executor312 Not tainted 6.15.0-rc7-syzkaller-gd7fa1af5b33e #0 PREEMPT
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine,…
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 Packages3 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linuxb16e920a1909da6799c43000db730d8fcdcae907 — 0e23ac818f3afb16660b0ba384875d56a7013879+2