CVE-2025-38043 Affecting kernel-default-livepatch package, versions <6.4.0-150600.23.60.5


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (9th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES156-KERNELDEFAULTLIVEPATCH-11175845
  • published29 Jul 2025
  • disclosed28 Jul 2025

Introduced: 28 Jul 2025

NewCVE-2025-38043  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.6 kernel-default-livepatch to version 6.4.0-150600.23.60.5 or higher.

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. See How to fix? for SLES:15.6 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

firmware: arm_ffa: Set dma_mask for ffa devices

Set dma_mask for FFA devices, otherwise DMA allocation using the device pointer lead to following warning:

WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 1 at kernel/dma/mapping.c:597 dma_alloc_attrs+0xe0/0x124

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1