CVE Catalog

CVE-2025-38639

HighCVSS 7.1
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.18%

7th percentile - higher than 7% of all known CVEs

Summary

A slab-out-of-bounds read vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel's netfilter xt_nfacct module. The issue occurs when the nfacct_mt_checkentry() function assumes the account name is null-terminated, which is not always the case.

Risk Assessment

An attacker could cause a system crash or information leak by sending a specially crafted network packet that triggers incorrect string formatting.

Recommendation

Update the Linux kernel to a version containing the fix that checks for null termination before using the account name.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: xt_nfacct: don't assume acct name is null-terminated BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in .. lib/vsprintf.c:721 Read of size 1 at addr ffff88801eac95c8 by task syz-executor183/5851 [..] string+0x231/0x2b0 lib/vsprintf.c:721 vsnprintf+0x739/0xf00 lib/vsprintf.c:2874 [..] nfacct_mt_checkentry+0xd2/0xe0 net/netfilter/xt_nfacct.c:41 xt_check_match+0x3d1/0xab0 net/netfilter/x_tables.c:523 nfnl_acct_find_get() handles non-null input, but the error printk relied on its presence.

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