CVE-2025-38528

MEDIUM

Linux kernel - Format String Vulnerability

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: Reject %p% format string in bprintf-like helpers static const char fmt[] = "%p%"; bpf_trace_printk(fmt, sizeof(fmt)); The above BPF program isn't rejected and causes a kernel warning at runtime: Please remove unsupported %\x00 in format string WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 7244 at lib/vsprintf.c:2680 format_decode+0x49c/0x5d0 This happens because bpf_bprintf_prepare skips over the second %, detected as punctuation, while processing %p. This patch fixes it by not skipping over punctuation. %\x00 is then processed in the next iteration and rejected.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0003
EPSS Percentile 7.7%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

Status published
Products (22)
debian/debian_linux 11.0
linux/Kernel 5.13.0 - 5.15.190linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 6.1.147linux
linux/Kernel 6.13.0 - 6.15.8linux
linux/Kernel 6.2.0 - 6.6.100linux
linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.12.40linux
Linux/Linux < 5.13
Linux/Linux 48cac3f4a96ddf08df8e53809ed066de0dc93915 - 1c5f5fd47bbda17cb885fe6f03730702cd53d3f8
Linux/Linux 48cac3f4a96ddf08df8e53809ed066de0dc93915 - 61d5fa45ed13e42af14c7e959baba9908b8ee6d4
Linux/Linux 48cac3f4a96ddf08df8e53809ed066de0dc93915 - 6952aeace93f8c9ea01849efecac24dd3152c9c9
... and 12 more
Published Aug 16, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026