CVE-2025-38613

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel < 6.16.1 - Use of Uninitialized Resource

Title source: rule
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: staging: gpib: fix unset padding field copy back to userspace The introduction of a padding field in the gpib_board_info_ioctl is showing up as initialized data on the stack frame being copyied back to userspace in function board_info_ioctl. The simplest fix is to initialize the entire struct to zero to ensure all unassigned padding fields are zero'd before being copied back to userspace.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0002
EPSS Percentile 5.6%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-908
Status published
Products (2)
linux/Kernel 6.13.0 - 6.16.1linux
linux/linux_kernel 6.13 - 6.16.1
Published Aug 19, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026