CVE-2025-38498 The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kernel-default-livepatch (opens in a new tab)
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-SLES154-KERNELDEFAULTLIVEPATCH-13024228
- published24 Sept 2025
- disclosed23 Sept 2025
Introduced: 23 Sep 2025
CVE-2025-38498 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The SLES security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for SLES:15.4.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-default-livepatch package and not the kernel-default-livepatch package as distributed by SLES.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
do_change_type(): refuse to operate on unmounted/not ours mounts
Ensure that propagation settings can only be changed for mounts located in the caller's mount namespace. This change aligns permission checking with the rest of mount(2).
References
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-38498.html
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/1247374
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/1247499
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/064014f7812744451d5d0592f3d2bcd727f2ee93
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/12f147ddd6de7382dad54812e65f3f08d05809fc
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/19554c79a2095ddde850906a067915c1ef3a4114
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/432a171d60056489270c462e651e6c3a13f855b1
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4f091ad0862b02dc42a19a120b7048de848561f8
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/787937c4e373f1722c4343e5a5a4eb0f8543e589
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9c1ddfeb662b668fff69c5f1cfdd9f5d23d55d23
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c7d11fdf8e5db5f34a6c062c7e6ba3a0971879d2
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00007.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00008.html
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-082556.html
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-089022.html