CVE-2025-38636 — Out-of-bounds Read in Linux

CWE-125 — Out-of-bounds Read6 documents6 sources
Severity
7.1HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 97.77%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
13
LinuxLinux KernelDebian Linux+10 more
Timeline
PublishedAug 22

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: rv: Use strings in da monitors tracepoints Using DA monitors tracepoints with KASAN enabled triggers the following warning: BUG: KASAN: global-out-of-bounds in do_trace_event_raw_event_event_da_monitor+0xd6/0x1a0 Read of size 32 at addr ffffffffaada8980 by task ... Call Trace: [...] do_trace_event_raw_event_event_da_monitor+0xd6/0x1a0 ? __pfx_do_trace_event_raw_event_event_da_monitor+0x10/0x10 ? trace_event_sncid+0x83/0x200 …

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 Packages14 packages

▶NVDlinux/linux_kernel6.0 — 6.16.1
▶Debianlinux/linux_kernel< 6.16.3-1

Patches

Patch: git.kernel.org ↗Patch: git.kernel.org ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
OSV
CVE-2025-38636: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: rv: Use strings in da monitors tracepoints Using DA monitors tracepoints with KASA↗2025-08-22
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GHSA
GHSA-xg28-vm4v-pcgp: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: rv: Use strings in da monitors tracepoints Using DA monitors tracepoints with KA↗2025-08-22
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Red Hat
kernel: rv: Use strings in da monitors tracepoints↗2025-08-22
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Microsoft
rv: Use strings in da monitors tracepoints↗2025-08-12
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Debian
CVE-2025-38636: linux - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: rv: Use str...↗2025
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