CVE-2025-38639 (GCVE-0-2025-38639)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-08-22 16:00 – Updated: 2026-05-11 21:32
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Title
netfilter: xt_nfacct: don't assume acct name is null-terminated
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: xt_nfacct: don't assume acct name is null-terminated BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in .. lib/vsprintf.c:721 Read of size 1 at addr ffff88801eac95c8 by task syz-executor183/5851 [..] string+0x231/0x2b0 lib/vsprintf.c:721 vsnprintf+0x739/0xf00 lib/vsprintf.c:2874 [..] nfacct_mt_checkentry+0xd2/0xe0 net/netfilter/xt_nfacct.c:41 xt_check_match+0x3d1/0xab0 net/netfilter/x_tables.c:523 nfnl_acct_find_get() handles non-null input, but the error printk relied on its presence.
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Linux Linux Affected: ceb98d03eac5704820f2ac1f370c9ff385e3a9f5 , < 66d41268ede1e1b6e71ba28be923397ff0b2b9c3 (git)
Affected: ceb98d03eac5704820f2ac1f370c9ff385e3a9f5 , < e021a1eee196887536a6630c5492c23a4c78d452 (git)
Affected: ceb98d03eac5704820f2ac1f370c9ff385e3a9f5 , < b10cfa2de13d28ddd03210eb234422b7ec92725a (git)
Affected: ceb98d03eac5704820f2ac1f370c9ff385e3a9f5 , < e18939176e657a3a20bfbed357b8c55a9f82aba3 (git)
Affected: ceb98d03eac5704820f2ac1f370c9ff385e3a9f5 , < 58004aa21e79addaf41667bfe65e93ec51653f18 (git)
Affected: ceb98d03eac5704820f2ac1f370c9ff385e3a9f5 , < 7c1ae471da69c09242834e956218ea6a42dd405a (git)
Affected: ceb98d03eac5704820f2ac1f370c9ff385e3a9f5 , < 58007fc7b94fb2702000045ff401eb7f5bde7828 (git)
Affected: ceb98d03eac5704820f2ac1f370c9ff385e3a9f5 , < df13c9c6ce1d55c31d1bd49db65a7fbbd86aab13 (git)
Affected: ceb98d03eac5704820f2ac1f370c9ff385e3a9f5 , < bf58e667af7d96c8eb9411f926a0a0955f41ce21 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 3.3
Unaffected: 0 , < 3.3 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4.297 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.241 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.190 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.148 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.102 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.42 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.15.10 , ≤ 6.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.16.1 , ≤ 6.16.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.17 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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