CVE-2025-38497 — Out-of-bounds Read in Linux
Severity
7.1HIGHNVD
OSV5.5OSV3.2
EPSS
0.0%
top 94.55%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedJul 28
Latest updateMar 25
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
usb: gadget: configfs: Fix OOB read on empty string write
When writing an empty string to either 'qw_sign' or 'landingPage'
sysfs attributes, the store functions attempt to access page[l - 1]
before validating that the length 'l' is greater than zero.
This patch fixes the vulnerability by adding a check at the beginning
of os_desc_qw_sign_store() and webusb_landingPage_store() to handle
the zero-length input case gracefully b…
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 5.2
Affected Packages4 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linux87213d388e927aaa88b21d5ff7e1f75ca2288da1 — 78b41148cfea2a3f04d87adf3a71b21735820a37+8
Also affects: Debian Linux 11.0