Information Exposure Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [4.12,6.12.42)[6.13,6.15.10)[6.16,6.16.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.25% (17th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-20699938
  • published10 Oct 2026
  • disclosed19 Aug 2025
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 19 Aug 2025

CVE-2025-38585  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-121  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 6.12.42, 6.15.10, 6.16.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure in the gmin_get_var_int function during device initialization for camera sensor configuration. An attacker can achieve code execution or cause a denial of service by supplying an EFI variable larger than the expected buffer size, leading to a stack buffer overflow when the length is not properly validated.

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