CVE-2025-38636CWE-125

CVE-2025-38636

High · published August 22, 2025

CVSS v3.1
7.1
EPSS
0%
Percentile
6.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

rv: Use strings in da monitors tracepoints

Using DA monitors tracepoints with KASAN enabled triggers the following

warning:

BUG: KASAN: global-out-of-bounds in do_trace_event_raw_event_event_da_monitor+0xd6/0x1a0

Read of size 32 at addr ffffffffaada8980 by task ...

Call Trace:

<TASK>

[...]

do_trace_event_raw_event_event_da_monitor+0xd6/0x1a0

? __pfx_do_trace_event_raw_event_event_da_monitor+0x10/0x10

? trace_event_sncid+0x83/0x200

trace_event_sncid+0x163/0x200

[...]

The buggy address belongs to the variable:

automaton_snep+0x4e0/0x5e0

This is caused by the tracepoints reading 32 bytes __array instead of

__string from the automata definition. Such strings are literals and

reading 32 bytes ends up in out of bound memory accesses (e.g. the next

automaton's data in this case).

The error is harmless as, while printing the string, we stop at the null

terminator, but it should still be fixed.

Use the __string facilities while defining the tracepoints to avoid

reading out of bound memory.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.1 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00170 · 6.0th percentile
Weakness
CWE-125 · Out-of-bounds Read
Published
2025-08-22T20:15Z
Affected products (1)
ProductVersionsFixed in
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.0, < 6.16.16.16.1
References (4)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 22 AUG 16:00Z
    rv: Use strings in da monitors tracepoints
    cvelistv5