CVE-2025-38451 Affecting linux-6.1 package, versions <6.1.153-1~deb11u1


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on default assessment until relevant scores are available.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.03% (7th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN11-LINUX61-13542032
  • published14 Oct 2025
  • disclosed25 Jul 2025

Introduced: 25 Jul 2025

CVE-2025-38451  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:11 linux-6.1 to version 6.1.153-1~deb11u1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream linux-6.1 package and not the linux-6.1 package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:11 relevant fixed versions and status.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

md/md-bitmap: fix GPF in bitmap_get_stats()

The commit message of commit 6ec1f0239485 ("md/md-bitmap: fix stats collection for external bitmaps") states:

Remove the external bitmap check as the statistics should be
available regardless of bitmap storage location.

Return -EINVAL only for invalid bitmap with no storage (neither in superblock nor in external file).

But, the code does not adhere to the above, as it does only check for a valid super-block for "internal" bitmaps. Hence, we observe:

Oops: GPF, probably for non-canonical address 0x1cd66f1f40000028 RIP: 0010:bitmap_get_stats+0x45/0xd0 Call Trace:

seq_read_iter+0x2b9/0x46a seq_read+0x12f/0x180 proc_reg_read+0x57/0xb0 vfs_read+0xf6/0x380 ksys_read+0x6d/0xf0 do_syscall_64+0x8c/0x1b0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e

We fix this by checking the existence of a super-block for both the internal and external case.

CVSS Base Scores

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