CVE-2025-37973 Affecting kernel-syms-azure package, versions <6.4.0-150600.8.43.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.03% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES156-KERNELSYMSAZURE-10665478
  • published9 Jul 2025
  • disclosed8 Jul 2025

Introduced: 8 Jul 2025

NewCVE-2025-37973  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.6 kernel-syms-azure to version 6.4.0-150600.8.43.1 or higher.

NVD Description

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

wifi: cfg80211: fix out-of-bounds access during multi-link element defragmentation

Currently during the multi-link element defragmentation process, the multi-link element length added to the total IEs length when calculating the length of remaining IEs after the multi-link element in cfg80211_defrag_mle(). This could lead to out-of-bounds access if the multi-link element or its corresponding fragment elements are the last elements in the IEs buffer.

To address this issue, correctly calculate the remaining IEs length by deducting the multi-link element end offset from total IEs end offset.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1