CVE Catalog

CVE-2025-38661

HighCVSS 7.1
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.14%

4th percentile - higher than 4% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the alienware-wmi-wmax platform driver for x86 in the Linux kernel, a vulnerability was found due to a missing empty element at the end of the dmi_system_id array named awcc_dmi_table. This could lead to out-of-bounds read during array processing.

Risk Assessment

An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause incorrect driver behavior or potentially kernel memory corruption.

Recommendation

Update the Linux kernel to a version containing the fix that adds the missing empty element at the end of the awcc_dmi_table array.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: platform/x86: alienware-wmi-wmax: Fix `dmi_system_id` array Add missing empty member to `awcc_dmi_table`.

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