Buffer Overflow Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [4.9,6.1.138)[6.2,6.6.90)[6.7,6.12.28)[6.13,6.14.6)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
0.74% (54th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-20699303
  • published10 Oct 2026
  • disclosed20 May 2025
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 20 May 2025

CVE-2025-37928  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-120  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 6.1.138, 6.6.90, 6.12.28, 6.14.6 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Buffer Overflow in the dm-bufio process when scheduling occurs in an atomic context. An attacker can cause a system crash or execute arbitrary code by triggering operations that lead to improper scheduling within atomic contexts.

Note: The Linux kernel project assigns a CVE to every bug fix it ships, whether or not the bug has been shown to be exploitable. This advisory was generated from that process and has not been individually assessed for exploitability. See the kernel's CVE process documentation: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/process/cve.rst

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1