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CVE-2025-38528

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Published: Aug 16, 2025Modified: Jun 17, 2026

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5.5
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Exploitability: 1.8 / Impact: 3.6
Source: NVD

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: Reject %p% format string in bprintf-like helpers static const char fmt[] = "%p%"; bpf_trace_printk(fmt, sizeof(fmt)); The above BPF program isn't rejected and causes a kernel warning at runtime: Please remove unsupported %\x00 in format string WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 7244 at lib/vsprintf.c:2680 format_decode+0x49c/0x5d0 This happens because bpf_bprintf_prepare skips over the second %, detected as punctuation, while processing %p. This patch fixes it by not skipping over punctuation. %\x00 is then processed in the next iteration and rejected.

Affected (12)

1 product
Linux Kernel
1 product
Debian Linux
Configuration A
11 vulnerable
Vulnerable SoftwareAffected Versions
Linux
From 5.13 to 5.15.190
From 5.16 to 6.1.147
From 6.13 to 6.15.8
From 6.2 to 6.6.100
From 6.7 to 6.12.40
Version 6.16 rc1
Version 6.16 rc2
Version 6.16 rc3
Version 6.16 rc4
Version 6.16 rc5
Version 6.16 rc6
Configuration B
1 vulnerable
Vulnerable SoftwareAffected Versions
Version 11.0

References (7)

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Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
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Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
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Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
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Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
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Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
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Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
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