INFSA-2025:13962: kernel security update
Information about definition
Identificator: INFSA-2025:13962
Type: security
Release date: 2025-08-27 16:25:27 UTC
Information about package
The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.
Vulnerabilities description
- CVE-2024-28956
New Spectre-v2 attack classes have been discovered within CPU architectures that enable self-training exploitation of speculative execution within the same privilege domain. These novel techniques bypass existing hardware and software mitigations, including IBPB, eIBRS, and BHI_NO, by leveraging in-kernel gadgets (potentially accessible via SECCOMP/cBPF), Branch Target Buffer (BTB) aliasing, and direct-to-indirect branch predictor training. While the root cause lies in CPU architectural behavior, the vulnerability manifests through kernel-level speculation paths, allowing attackers to potentially leak sensitive memory.
- CVE-2025-38085
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/hugetlb: fix huge_pmd_unshare() vs GUP-fast race.
- CVE-2025-38159
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: rtw88: fix the 'para' buffer size to avoid reading out of bounds.
- CVE-2025-21867
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf, test_run: Fix use-after-free issue in eth_skb_pkt_type().
- CVE-2025-38084
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/hugetlb: unshare page tables during VMA split, not before.
- CVE-2025-38124
A denial of service vulnerability has been discovered in the Linux kernel's UDP Generic Segmentation Offload (GSO) functionality. This flaw allows a local, unprivileged user to trigger a kernel crash by generating UDP packets with a specially malformed frag_list geometry. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to a system crash, severely impacting the availability and stability of the affected system.
- CVE-2025-38250
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Bluetooth: hci_core: Fix use-after-free in vhci_flush().
- CVE-2025-38380
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: i2c/designware: Fix an initialization issue.
- CVE-2025-38471
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tls: always refresh the queue when reading sock.
Severity level
CVE | Score CVSS 2.0 | Score CVSS 3.x | Score CVSS 4.0 |
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NIST — CVE-2024-28956
|
no information | 5.6 | no information |
NIST — CVE-2025-21867
|
no information | 7.0 | no information |
NIST — CVE-2025-38084
|
no information | 7.1 | no information |
NIST — CVE-2025-38085
|
no information | 7.1 | no information |
NIST — CVE-2025-38124
|
no information | 7.0 | no information |
NIST — CVE-2025-38159
|
no information | 7.1 | no information |
NIST — CVE-2025-38250
|
no information | 7.3 | no information |
NIST — CVE-2025-38380
|
no information | 7.0 | no information |
NIST — CVE-2025-38471
|
no information | 7.4 | no information |
Updated packages