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CVE-2025-37938

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CVE-2025-37938

Published: May 20, 2025

Modified: May 11, 2026

PUBLISHED

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tracing: Verify event formats that have "%*p.." The trace event verifier checks the formats of trace events to make sure that they do not point at memory that is not in the trace event itself or in data that will never be freed. If an event references data that was allocated when the event triggered and that same data is freed before the event is read, then the kernel can crash by reading freed memory. The verifier runs at boot up (or module load) and scans the print formats of the events and checks their arguments to make sure that dereferenced pointers are safe. If the format uses "%*p.." the verifier will ignore it, and that could be dangerous. Cover this case as well. Also add to the sample code a use case of "%*pbl".

VendorProductVersions

Linux

Linux

affected
5013f454a352cce8e62162976026a9c472595e42 - < 6854c87ac823181c810f8c07489ba543260c0023
affected
5013f454a352cce8e62162976026a9c472595e42 - < 4d11fac941d83509be4e6a21038281d6d96da50c
affected
5013f454a352cce8e62162976026a9c472595e42 - < 03127354027508d076073b020d3070990fd6a958
affected
5013f454a352cce8e62162976026a9c472595e42 - < 04b80d45ecfaf780981d6582899e3ab205e4aa08
affected
5013f454a352cce8e62162976026a9c472595e42 - < c7204fd1758c0caf1938e8a59809a1fdf28a8114

+1 more versions

Linux

Linux

affected
5.13
unaffected
0 - < 5.13
unaffected
6.1.136 - <= 6.1.*
unaffected
6.6.89 - <= 6.6.*
unaffected
6.12.26 - <= 6.12.*

+3 more versions

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