CVE-2025-38251

Updated on 09 Jul 2025

Severity

5.5 Medium severity

Details

CVSS score
5.5
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Overview

About vulnerability

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

atm: clip: prevent NULL deref in clip_push()

Blamed commit missed that vcc_destroy_socket() calls clip_push() with a NULL skb.

If clip_devs is NULL, clip_push() then crashes when reading skb->truesize.

Details

Affected product:
AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU , TuxCare 9.6 ESU
Affected packages:
kernel @ 5.14.0 (+1 more)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

atm: clip: prevent NULL deref in clip_push()

Blamed commit missed that vcc_destroy_socket() calls clip_push() with a NULL skb.

If clip_devs is NULL, clip_push() then crashes when reading skb->truesize.

Fixes