CVE-2025-38088 Affecting kernel-default package, versions <5.14.21-150400.24.173.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.06% (20th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES154-KERNELDEFAULT-12016637
  • published19 Aug 2025
  • disclosed18 Aug 2025

Introduced: 18 Aug 2025

NewCVE-2025-38088  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.4 kernel-default to version 5.14.21-150400.24.173.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-default package and not the kernel-default package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.4 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

powerpc/powernv/memtrace: Fix out of bounds issue in memtrace mmap

memtrace mmap issue has an out of bounds issue. This patch fixes the by checking that the requested mapping region size should stay within the allocated region size.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1