CVE-2025-38061 (GCVE-0-2025-38061)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-06-18 09:33 – Updated: 2026-01-02 15:29
VLAI?
Title
net: pktgen: fix access outside of user given buffer in pktgen_thread_write()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: pktgen: fix access outside of user given buffer in pktgen_thread_write() Honour the user given buffer size for the strn_len() calls (otherwise strn_len() will access memory outside of the user given buffer).
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Vendor Product Version
Linux Linux Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < a3d89f1cfe1e6d4bb164db2595511fd33db21900 (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 5bfa81539e22af4c40ae5d43d7212253462383a6 (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 128cdb617a87767c29be43e4431129942fce41df (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < ef1158a6a650ecee72ab40851b1d52e04d3f9cb5 (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < c81c2ee1c3b050ed5c4e92876590cc7a259183f6 (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 6b1d3e9db82d01a88de1795b879df67c2116b4f4 (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 8fef258b555c75a467a6b4b7e3a3cbc46d5f4102 (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 425e64440ad0a2f03bdaf04be0ae53dededbaa77 (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 2.6.12
Unaffected: 0 , < 2.6.12 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4.294 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.238 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.185 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.141 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.93 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.31 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.14.9 , ≤ 6.14.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.15 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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