CVE-2025-38528
Published: Aug 16, 2025
Modified: May 11, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: Reject %p% format string in bprintf-like helpers static const char fmt[] = "%p%"; bpf_trace_printk(fmt, sizeof(fmt)); The above BPF program isn't rejected and causes a kernel warning at runtime: Please remove unsupported %\x00 in format string WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 7244 at lib/vsprintf.c:2680 format_decode+0x49c/0x5d0 This happens because bpf_bprintf_prepare skips over the second %, detected as punctuation, while processing %p. This patch fixes it by not skipping over punctuation. %\x00 is then processed in the next iteration and rejected.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
Linux | Linux | affected 48cac3f4a96ddf08df8e53809ed066de0dc93915 - < 97303e541e12f1fea97834ec64b98991e8775f39affected 48cac3f4a96ddf08df8e53809ed066de0dc93915 - < 61d5fa45ed13e42af14c7e959baba9908b8ee6d4affected 48cac3f4a96ddf08df8e53809ed066de0dc93915 - < e7be679124bae8cf4fa6e40d7e1661baddfb3289affected 48cac3f4a96ddf08df8e53809ed066de0dc93915 - < 6952aeace93f8c9ea01849efecac24dd3152c9c9affected 48cac3f4a96ddf08df8e53809ed066de0dc93915 - < 1c5f5fd47bbda17cb885fe6f03730702cd53d3f8+1 more versions |
Linux | Linux | affected 5.13unaffected 0 - < 5.13unaffected 5.15.190 - <= 5.15.*unaffected 6.1.147 - <= 6.1.*unaffected 6.6.100 - <= 6.6.*+3 more versions |
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