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Tracker / CVE-2025-38077

CVE-2025-38077

High 7.8

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: platform/x86: dell-wmi-sysman: Avoid buffer overflow in current_password_store() If the 'buf' array received from the user contains an empty string, the 'length' variable will be zero. Accessing the 'buf' array element with index 'length - 1' will result in a buffer overflow. Add a check for an empty string. Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.

Affected products and versions

debian debian_linux
linux linux_kernel
linux linux_kernel · 5.11 → 5.15.185
linux linux_kernel · 5.16 → 6.1.141
linux linux_kernel · 6.13 → 6.14.9
linux linux_kernel · 6.2 → 6.6.93
linux linux_kernel · 6.7 → 6.12.31

Analysis

This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.

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