CVE-2025-38251 (GCVE-0-2025-38251)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-07-09 10:42 – Updated: 2026-05-11 21:24
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
atm: clip: prevent NULL deref in clip_push()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
atm: clip: prevent NULL deref in clip_push()
Blamed commit missed that vcc_destroy_socket() calls
clip_push() with a NULL skb.
If clip_devs is NULL, clip_push() then crashes when reading
skb->truesize.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
Assigner
References
9 references
Impacted products
2 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
93a2014afbace907178afc3c9c1e62c9a338595a , < 41f6420ee845006354c004839fed07da71e34aee
(git)
Affected: 93a2014afbace907178afc3c9c1e62c9a338595a , < 9199e8cb75f13a1650adcb3c6cad42789c43884e (git) Affected: 93a2014afbace907178afc3c9c1e62c9a338595a , < 88c88f91f4b3563956bb52e7a71a3640f7ece157 (git) Affected: 93a2014afbace907178afc3c9c1e62c9a338595a , < 3c709dce16999bf6a1d2ce377deb5dd6fdd8cb08 (git) Affected: 93a2014afbace907178afc3c9c1e62c9a338595a , < a07005a77b18ae59b8471e7e4d991fa9f642b3c2 (git) Affected: 93a2014afbace907178afc3c9c1e62c9a338595a , < ede31ad949ae0d03cb4c5edd79991586ad7c8bb8 (git) Affected: 93a2014afbace907178afc3c9c1e62c9a338595a , < b993ea46b3b601915ceaaf3c802adf11e7d6bac6 (git) |
guessed | |
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
5.7
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.7 (semver) Unaffected: 5.10.240 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.15.187 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.1.143 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.6.96 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.12.36 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.15.5 , ≤ 6.15.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.16 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix) |
guessed |
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Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.
Sightings
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Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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