CVE-2025-38257 Affecting kernel-macros package, versions <5.14.21-150500.55.116.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.03% (8th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES155-KERNELMACROS-11382551
  • published2 Aug 2025
  • disclosed1 Aug 2025

Introduced: 1 Aug 2025

NewCVE-2025-38257  (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:

s390/pkey: Prevent overflow in size calculation for memdup_user()

Number of apqn target list entries contained in 'nr_apqns' variable is determined by userspace via an ioctl call so the result of the product in calculation of size passed to memdup_user() may overflow.

In this case the actual size of the allocated area and the value describing it won't be in sync leading to various types of unpredictable behaviour later.

Use a proper memdup_array_user() helper which returns an error if an overflow is detected. Note that it is different from when nr_apqns is initially zero - that case is considered valid and should be handled in subsequent pkey_handler implementations.

Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org).

CVSS Base Scores

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