PT-2025-37962 · Linux+7 · Linux Kernel+7

Published

2025-01-01

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Updated

2026-05-07

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CVE-2025-39817

CVSS v3.1

7.1

High

VectorAV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel versions prior to 6.6
Description The Linux kernel contains a flaw in the efivarfs module related to an out-of-bounds write in the efivarfs d compare function. This issue occurs when dentry->d name.len is less than EFI VARIABLE GUID LEN, potentially leading to out-of-bounds access. The vulnerability can be triggered by parallel lookups using an invalid filename. Specifically, the issue arises during directory comparison within the efivarfs d compare function when handling invalid dentries added to the hash list.
Recommendations Update to a newer kernel version to address this issue.

Exploit

Fix

Out of bounds Read

Weakness Enumeration

Related Identifiers

ALSA-2025:18281
ALSA-2025:18318
ALSA-2025:19102
ALSA-2025:19103
AZL-67398
AZL-74712
BDU:2025-15682
CESA-2025_19102
CESA-2025_19103
CVE-2025-39817
DLA-4327-1
DLA-4328-1
DSA-6008-1
DSA-6009-1
ECHO-AC81-15E1-A84C
INFSA-2025_18281
INFSA-2025_19102
INFSA-2025_19103
INFSA-2025_21112
OESA-2025-2553
OPENSUSE-SU-2026:20287-1
RHSA-2025:18281
RHSA-2025:18318
RHSA-2025:19102
RHSA-2025:19103
RHSA-2025:21112
RHSA-2025:21118
RHSA-2025_18281
RHSA-2025_19102
RHSA-2025_19103
RHSA-2025_21112
RHSA-2026:0533
RHSA-2026:2490
RHSA-2026:3634
RHSA-2026:3685
SUSE-SU-2026:0962-1
SUSE-SU-2026:1041-1
SUSE-SU-2026:1078-1
SUSE-SU-2026:1081-1
SUSE-SU-2026:20555-1
SUSE-SU-2026:20599-1
SUSE-SU-2026:20615-1
SUSE-SU-2026:21114-1
SUSE-SU-2026:21123-1
SUSE-SU-2026:21255-1
USN-7909-1
USN-7909-2
USN-7909-3
USN-7909-4
USN-7909-5
USN-7910-1
USN-7910-2
USN-7933-1
USN-7938-1
USN-8095-1
USN-8095-2
USN-8095-3
USN-8095-4
USN-8095-5
USN-8100-1
USN-8125-1
USN-8126-1
USN-8165-1
USN-8261-1

Affected Products

Almalinux
Centos
Debian
Linuxmint
Linux Kernel
Red Hat
Rocky Linux
Ubuntu