CVE-2025-38569

Published: Aug 19, 2025Modified: Jun 17, 2026

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: benet: fix BUG when creating VFs benet crashes as soon as SRIOV VFs are created: kernel BUG at mm/vmalloc.c:3457! Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN NOPTI CPU: 4 UID: 0 PID: 7408 Comm: test.sh Kdump: loaded Not tainted 6.16.0+ #1 PREEMPT(voluntary) [...] RIP: 0010:vunmap+0x5f/0x70 [...] Call Trace: <TASK> __iommu_dma_free+0xe8/0x1c0 be_cmd_set_mac_list+0x3fe/0x640 [be2net] be_cmd_set_mac+0xaf/0x110 [be2net] be_vf_eth_addr_config+0x19f/0x330 [be2net] be_vf_setup+0x4f7/0x990 [be2net] be_pci_sriov_configure+0x3a1/0x470 [be2net] sriov_numvfs_store+0x20b/0x380 kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x354/0x530 vfs_write+0x9b9/0xf60 ksys_write+0xf3/0x1d0 do_syscall_64+0x8c/0x3d0 be_cmd_set_mac_list() calls dma_free_coherent() under a spin_lock_bh. Fix it by freeing only after the lock has been released.

Affected (13)

Products: Linux: Linux Kernel · Debian: Debian Linux

1 product

1 product

Configuration A

12 vulnerable

Vulnerable Software	Affected Versions
Linux Linux Kernel	5.10.235 ≤ version < 5.10.241
Linux Linux Kernel	5.15.179 ≤ version < 5.15.190
Linux Linux Kernel	5.4.291 ≤ version < 5.4.297
Linux Linux Kernel	6.1.131 ≤ version < 6.1.148
Linux Linux Kernel	6.12.19 ≤ version < 6.12.42
Linux Linux Kernel	6.13.7 ≤ version < 6.14
Linux Linux Kernel	6.14.1 ≤ version < 6.15.10
Linux Linux Kernel	6.16 ≤ version < 6.16.1
Linux Linux Kernel	6.6.83 ≤ version < 6.6.102
Linux Linux Kernel	Version 6.14
Linux Linux Kernel	Version 6.14 rc6
Linux Linux Kernel	Version 6.14 rc7