CVE-2025-38406 Affecting kernel-devel package, versions <6.12.0-160000.6.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.06% (20th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES1600-KERNELDEVEL-14385337
  • published11 Dec 2025
  • disclosed25 Nov 2025

Introduced: 25 Nov 2025

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How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:16.0.0 kernel-devel to version 6.12.0-160000.6.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-devel package and not the kernel-devel package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:16.0.0 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

wifi: ath6kl: remove WARN on bad firmware input

If the firmware gives bad input, that's nothing to do with the driver's stack at this point etc., so the WARN_ON() doesn't add any value. Additionally, this is one of the top syzbot reports now. Just print a message, and as an added bonus, print the sizes too.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1