CVE-2025-38676

high

Published 2025-08-26 · Modified 2026-05-12

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CVSS v3

7.8

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.8

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: iommu/amd: Avoid stack buffer overflow from kernel cmdline While the kernel command line is considered trusted in most environments, avoid writing 1 byte past the end of "acpiid" if the "str" argument is maximum length.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

75%

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
sles		affected
debian	bookworm	fixed	`6.1.153-1`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`5.10.244-1`
debian	forky	fixed	`6.16.5-1`
debian	sid	fixed	`6.16.5-1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`6.12.48-1`
linux-kernel		affected	`5.5`
linux-kernel	6.17	affected
debian	11.0	affected

References

CWEs

CWE-787

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.