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
no information 5.6 no information
no information 7.0 no information
no information 7.1 no information
no information 7.1 no information
no information 7.0 no information
no information 7.1 no information
no information 7.3 no information
no information 7.0 no information
no information 7.4 no information
Critical, important, moderate, low

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