{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2025-07-25T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "kernel: platform/x86: dell-wmi-sysman: Fix WMI data block retrieval in sysfs callbacks",
    "id" : "2383398",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2383398"
  },
  "cvss3" : {
    "cvss3_base_score" : "6.1",
    "cvss3_scoring_vector" : "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-129",
  "details" : [ "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\nplatform/x86: dell-wmi-sysman: Fix WMI data block retrieval in sysfs callbacks\nAfter retrieving WMI data blocks in sysfs callbacks, check for the\nvalidity of them before dereferencing their content." ],
  "statement" : "The vulnerability lies in the lack of validation on ACPI package structures retrieved through WMI sysfs callbacks in the dell-wmi-sysman driver. A local user with sysfs access can trigger a kernel crash or potentially leak memory by crafting malformed ACPI responses or racing access.\nEnabled only for the latest version of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 (and after).",
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10",
    "release_date" : "2025-11-11T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2025:20095",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10.1",
    "package" : "kernel-0:6.12.0-124.8.1.el10_1"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel-rt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "fix_state" : "Fix deferred",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "fix_state" : "Fix deferred",
    "package_name" : "kernel-rt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "fix_state" : "Fix deferred",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "fix_state" : "Fix deferred",
    "package_name" : "kernel-rt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38412\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-38412\nhttps://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025072521-CVE-2025-38412-2ccc@gregkh/T" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2025-38412",
  "mitigation" : {
    "value" : "To mitigate this issue, prevent module dell-wmi-sysman from being loaded. Please see https://access.redhat.com/solutions/41278 for how to blacklist a kernel module to prevent it from loading automatically.",
    "lang" : "en:us"
  },
  "csaw" : false
}