CVE-2025-38079 Affecting kernel-macros package, versions <5.14.21-150500.55.116.1


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (9th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES155-KERNELMACROS-11382416
  • published2 Aug 2025
  • disclosed1 Aug 2025

Introduced: 1 Aug 2025

NewCVE-2025-38079  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.5 kernel-macros to version 5.14.21-150500.55.116.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-macros package and not the kernel-macros package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.5 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

crypto: algif_hash - fix double free in hash_accept

If accept(2) is called on socket type algif_hash with MSG_MORE flag set and crypto_ahash_import fails, sk2 is freed. However, it is also freed in af_alg_release, leading to slab-use-after-free error.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1