CVE-2025-38120 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
0.04% (13th percentile)

Do your applications use this vulnerable package?

In a few clicks we can analyze your entire application and see what components are vulnerable in your application, and suggest you quick fixes.

Test your applications
  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES1600-KERNELDOCSHTML-14380418
  • published11 Dec 2025
  • disclosed25 Nov 2025

Introduced: 25 Nov 2025

NewCVE-2025-38120  (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:

netfilter: nf_set_pipapo_avx2: fix initial map fill

If the first field doesn't cover the entire start map, then we must zero out the remainder, else we leak those bits into the next match round map.

The early fix was incomplete and did only fix up the generic C implementation.

A followup patch adds a test case to nft_concat_range.sh.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1