CVE Catalog

CVE-2025-38068

HighCVSS 7.8
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.16%

5th percentile - higher than 5% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel's LZO compression implementation, there is a lack of output buffer overrun checking. The compression function assumes the caller always provides enough space, ignoring the provided buffer size. The patch adds a safe compression interface that checks for buffer end before each write.

Risk Assessment

The vulnerability can lead to buffer overrun during data compression, potentially causing kernel memory corruption and enabling privilege escalation.

Recommendation

Apply the Linux kernel patch that uses the safe LZO compression interface that checks buffer boundaries.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: crypto: lzo - Fix compression buffer overrun Unlike the decompression code, the compression code in LZO never checked for output overruns. It instead assumes that the caller always provides enough buffer space, disregarding the buffer length provided by the caller. Add a safe compression interface that checks for the end of buffer before each write. Use the safe interface in crypto/lzo.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS