Buffer Overflow Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [5.19,6.1.191)[6.2,6.6.95)[6.7,6.12.35)[6.13,6.15.4)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.46% (41st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-20699827
  • published10 Oct 2026
  • disclosed25 Jul 2025
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 25 Jul 2025

CVE-2025-38429  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-362  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 6.1.191, 6.6.95, 6.12.35, 6.15.4 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Buffer Overflow in the mhi_ep_ring_add_element process. An attacker can cause data corruption, arbitrary kernel memory disclosure, arbitrary write, control-flow hijack, and denial of service by exploiting a race condition where the read pointer is updated before the buffer is fully written, allowing the host to access uninitialized or incomplete elements.

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