NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting kernel-docs-html 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
0.02% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES1600-KERNELDOCSHTML-13935671
  • published13 Nov 2025
  • disclosed6 Nov 2025

Introduced: 6 Nov 2025

CVE-2025-38487  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

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

NVD Description

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

soc: aspeed: lpc-snoop: Don't disable channels that aren't enabled

Mitigate e.g. the following:

# echo 1e789080.lpc-snoop &gt; /sys/bus/platform/drivers/aspeed-lpc-snoop/unbind
...
[  120.363594] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000004 when write
[  120.373866] [00000004] *pgd=00000000
[  120.377910] Internal error: Oops: 805 [#1] SMP ARM
[  120.383306] CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 315 Comm: sh Not tainted 6.15.0-rc1-00009-g926217bc7d7d-dirty #20 NONE
...
[  120.679543] Call trace:
[  120.679559]  misc_deregister from aspeed_lpc_snoop_remove+0x84/0xac
[  120.692462]  aspeed_lpc_snoop_remove from platform_remove+0x28/0x38
[  120.700996]  platform_remove from device_release_driver_internal+0x188/0x200
...

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1