PT-2025-27998

CVE-2025-38223

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Published

2025-07-04

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Updated

2026-02-20

Description by

CVSS 4.0
6.8
Medium
MetricsAV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Linux kernel versions prior to 6.13.0-rc5+
Description: A vulnerability in the Linux kernel has been resolved, which caused a kernel BUG when handling encrypted inodes with unaligned file sizes. The issue was identified by the generic/397 test.
Recommendations: For Linux kernel versions prior to 6.13.0-rc5+, update to a version that includes the fix for this issue to prevent the kernel BUG.
Exploitability
Exploit
Fix
Impacts
Vendors
Affected products
Weakness enumeration
CWE-617: Reachable Assertion
CWE-20: Improper Input Validation
Related identifiers
CVE-2025-38223
BDU:2025-10769
USN-7833-1
USN-7833-2
USN-7833-3
USN-7833-4
USN-7834-1
USN-7856-1
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