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🛡️ CVE-2025-38197 — debian-linux

🟠 CVSS 7.3 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-476 NVD
7.3
CVSS Score
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Description

platform/x86: dell_rbu: Fix list usage

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

platform/x86: dell_rbu: Fix list usage

Pass the correct list head to list_for_each_entry*() when looping through

the packet list.

Without this patch, reading the packet data via sysfs will show the data

incorrectly (because it starts at the wrong packet), and clearing the

packet list will result in a NULL pointer dereference.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity low, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2025-38197 is classified as CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference. A pointer that can be null is used without a check, crashing the process.

Affected software

CVE-2025-38197 is recorded against 3 packages.

  • debian-linux
  • kernel (from 6.13.0 up to 6.15.4)
  • linux-kernel

Timeline and source

Published on 4 July 2025 and last revised on 30 July 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

git.kernel.org
git.kernel.org
git.kernel.org
git.kernel.org
git.kernel.org
git.kernel.org
git.kernel.org
lists.debian.org
lists.debian.org

CVE-2025-38197 on other distributions

Each distribution ships its own build and its own fixed version. Pick the one you run:

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 7.3
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:H
CWE CWE-476
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2025-07-04
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-07-30

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
debian-linux — —
kernel 6.13.0 6.15.4
linux-kernel — —

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