CVE-2025-38173 (GCVE-0-2025-38173)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-07-03 08:36 – Updated: 2026-05-11 21:22
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Title
crypto: marvell/cesa - Handle zero-length skcipher requests
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: crypto: marvell/cesa - Handle zero-length skcipher requests Do not access random memory for zero-length skcipher requests. Just return 0.
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Linux Linux Affected: f63601fd616ab370774fa00ea10bcaaa9e48e84c , < 32d3e8049a8b60f18c5c39f5931bfb1130ac11c9 (git)
Affected: f63601fd616ab370774fa00ea10bcaaa9e48e84c , < c064ae2881d839709bd72d484d5f2af157f46024 (git)
Affected: f63601fd616ab370774fa00ea10bcaaa9e48e84c , < e1cc69da619588b1488689fe3535a0ba75a2b0e7 (git)
Affected: f63601fd616ab370774fa00ea10bcaaa9e48e84c , < 78ea1ff6cb413a03ff6f7af4e28e24b4461a0965 (git)
Affected: f63601fd616ab370774fa00ea10bcaaa9e48e84c , < 5e9666ac8b94c978690f937d59170c5237bd2c45 (git)
Affected: f63601fd616ab370774fa00ea10bcaaa9e48e84c , < 7894694b5d5b2ecfd7fb081d6f60b9e169ab4d13 (git)
Affected: f63601fd616ab370774fa00ea10bcaaa9e48e84c , < c9610dda42bd382a96f97e68825cb5f66cd9e1dc (git)
Affected: f63601fd616ab370774fa00ea10bcaaa9e48e84c , < 8a4e047c6cc07676f637608a9dd675349b5de0a7 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 4.2
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.2 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4.295 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.239 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.186 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.142 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.94 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.34 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.15.3 , ≤ 6.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.16 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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