CVE-2025-38531 Affecting kernel-source package, versions <6.4.0-150600.23.70.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.02% (5th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES156-KERNELSOURCE-13025456
  • published24 Sept 2025
  • disclosed23 Sept 2025

Introduced: 23 Sep 2025

NewCVE-2025-38531  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.6 kernel-source to version 6.4.0-150600.23.70.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-source package and not the kernel-source 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:

iio: common: st_sensors: Fix use of uninitialize device structs

Throughout the various probe functions &indio_dev->dev is used before it is initialized. This caused a kernel panic in st_sensors_power_enable() when the call to devm_regulator_bulk_get_enable() fails and then calls dev_err_probe() with the uninitialized device.

This seems to only cause a panic with dev_err_probe(), dev_err(), dev_warn() and dev_info() don't seem to cause a panic, but are fixed as well.

The issue is reported and traced here: [1]

CVSS Base Scores

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