CVE-2025-38546 Affecting kernel-livepatch-6_4_0-150700_53_16-default package, versions <1-150700.15.3.2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (9th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES157-KERNELLIVEPATCH6401507005316DEFAULT-13006527
  • published23 Sept 2025
  • disclosed22 Sept 2025

Introduced: 22 Sep 2025

NewCVE-2025-38546  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.7 kernel-livepatch-6_4_0-150700_53_16-default to version 1-150700.15.3.2 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-livepatch-6_4_0-150700_53_16-default package and not the kernel-livepatch-6_4_0-150700_53_16-default package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.7 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

atm: clip: Fix memory leak of struct clip_vcc.

ioctl(ATMARP_MKIP) allocates struct clip_vcc and set it to vcc->user_back.

The code assumes that vcc_destroy_socket() passes NULL skb to vcc->push() when the socket is close()d, and then clip_push() frees clip_vcc.

However, ioctl(ATMARPD_CTRL) sets NULL to vcc->push() in atm_init_atmarp(), resulting in memory leak.

Let's serialise two ioctl() by lock_sock() and check vcc->push() in atm_init_atmarp() to prevent memleak.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1