CVE-2025-38251 Affecting kernel-syms 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
0.04% (10th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES156-KERNELSYMS-13024564
  • published24 Sept 2025
  • disclosed23 Sept 2025

Introduced: 23 Sep 2025

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How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.6 kernel-syms 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-syms package and not the kernel-syms 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:

atm: clip: prevent NULL deref in clip_push()

Blamed commit missed that vcc_destroy_socket() calls clip_push() with a NULL skb.

If clip_devs is NULL, clip_push() then crashes when reading skb->truesize.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1