CVE-2025-38077

high

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: platform/x86: dell-wmi-sysman: Avoid buffer overflow in current_password_store() If the 'buf' array received from the user contains an empty string, the 'length' variable will be zero. Accessing the 'buf' array element with index 'length - 1' will result in a buffer overflow. Add a check for an empty string. Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fb7cde625872709b8cedad9b241e0ec3d82fa7d3

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f86465626917df3b8bdd2756ec0cc9d179c5af0f

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/97066373ffd55bd9af0b512ff3dd1f647620a3dc

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8594a123cfa23d708582dc6fb36da34479ef8a5b

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/60bd13f8c4b3de2c910ae1cdbef85b9bbc9685f5

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4e89a4077490f52cde652d17e32519b666abf3a6

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-06-18

Updated: 2025-06-18

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 10

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: Critical

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.0003