CVE-2025-38498
medium
CVSS v3
5.5
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
5.5
Description
RHSA-2025:16372: kernel security update (Moderate)
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
55%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| rhel | 9 | fixed | |
| rocky | 8 | fixed | |
| sles | affected | | |
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 6.1.147-1 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 5.10.244-1 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 6.12.35-1 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 6.12.35-1 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 6.12.35-1 |
| linux-kernel | affected | 5.4.295 | |
| debian | 11.0 | affected | |
| almalinux | 9 | fixed | kernel-debug-devel-5.14.0-570.46.1.el9_6.aarch64.rpm |
| rhel | 8 | fixed | |
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:16398
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:21469
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/064014f7812744451d5d0592f3d2bcd727f2ee93
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/12f147ddd6de7382dad54812e65f3f08d05809fc
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/19554c79a2095ddde850906a067915c1ef3a4114
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/432a171d60056489270c462e651e6c3a13f855b1
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4f091ad0862b02dc42a19a120b7048de848561f8
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/787937c4e373f1722c4343e5a5a4eb0f8543e589
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9c1ddfeb662b668fff69c5f1cfdd9f5d23d55d23
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c7d11fdf8e5db5f34a6c062c7e6ba3a0971879d2
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00007.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00008.html
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-082556.html
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-089022.html
- https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2025:16372
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-38498.html
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-38498
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:16372
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2383513
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2384422
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2389456
- https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2025-16372.html
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2363686
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2365028
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2393534
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.