CVE-2025-38238 Affecting kernel-livepatch-6_4_0-150700_7_13-rt package, versions <1-150700.1.5.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.21% (11th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES157-KERNELLIVEPATCH640150700713RT-12015763
  • published19 Aug 2025
  • disclosed18 Aug 2025

Introduced: 18 Aug 2025

CVE-2025-38238  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.7 kernel-livepatch-6_4_0-150700_7_13-rt to version 1-150700.1.5.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-livepatch-6_4_0-150700_7_13-rt package and not the kernel-livepatch-6_4_0-150700_7_13-rt 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:

scsi: fnic: Fix crash in fnic_wq_cmpl_handler when FDMI times out

When both the RHBA and RPA FDMI requests time out, fnic reuses a frame to send ABTS for each of them. On send completion, this causes an attempt to free the same frame twice that leads to a crash.

Fix crash by allocating separate frames for RHBA and RPA, and modify ABTS logic accordingly.

Tested by checking MDS for FDMI information.

Tested by using instrumented driver to:

  • Drop PLOGI response
  • Drop RHBA response
  • Drop RPA response
  • Drop RHBA and RPA response
  • Drop PLOGI response + ABTS response
  • Drop RHBA response + ABTS response
  • Drop RPA response + ABTS response
  • Drop RHBA and RPA response + ABTS response for both of them

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1