🛡️ CVE-2025-38361 — kernel

🟠 CVSS 7.8 — High ✅ No Known Exploit NVD
7.8
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

drm/amd/display: Check dce_hwseq before dereferencing it

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

drm/amd/display: Check dce_hwseq before dereferencing it

[WHAT]

hws was checked for null earlier in dce110_blank_stream, indicating hws

can be null, and should be checked whenever it is used.

(cherry picked from commit 79db43611ff61280b6de58ce1305e0b2ecf675ad)

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 high, availability high.

Affected software

CVE-2025-38361 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • kernel (from 6.13.0 up to 6.15.5)
  • linux-kernel

Timeline and source

Published on 25 July 2025 and last revised on 15 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 (Web)
git.kernel.org (Web)
git.kernel.org (Web)
git.kernel.org (Web)
git.kernel.org (Web)
github.com (Advisory)
nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
git.kernel.org (Package)

CVE-2025-38361 on other distributions

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

Details

Severity High
CVSS Score 7.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2025-07-25
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-07-15

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
kernel 6.13.0 6.15.5
linux-kernel — —

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