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CVE-2025-38328: debian debian_linux NULL Pointer Dereference

CVSS: 5.5v3.1MediumAnalyzed
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2025-38328DEBIAN-CVE-2025-38328
Published 10-07-2025Last modified 11-05-2026
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2025-38328 is a medium (CVSS 5.5) NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in debian debian_linux. EPSS estimates a 0.22% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 11.3% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
22/100
0100
Low · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
5.5/10
010
Medium · v3.1 (NVD)
EPSS score
0.22%
0%100%
Low · +0.03 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 47 · Related 42
DLA-4327-1DLA-4328-1DSA-5973-1MGASA-2025-0218MGASA-2025-0219SUSE-SU-2025:02853-1

Timeline

  1. 10-07-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 11-05-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: jffs2: check jffs2_prealloc_raw_node_refs() result in few other places Fuzzing hit another invalid pointer dereference due to the lack of checking whether jffs2_prealloc_raw_node_refs() completed successfully. Subsequent logic implies that the node refs have been allocated. Handle that. The code is ready for propagating the error upwards. KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000008-0x000000000000000f] CPU: 1 PID: 5835 Comm: syz-executor145 Not tainted 5.10.234-syzkaller #0 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.12.0-1 04/01/2014 RIP: 0010:jffs2_link_node_ref+0xac/0x690 fs/jffs2/nodelist.c:600 Call Trace: jffs2_mark_erased_block fs/jffs2/erase.c:460 [inline] jffs2_erase_pending_blocks+0x688/0x1860 fs/jffs2/erase.c:118 jffs2_garbage_collect_pass+0x638/0x1a00 fs/jffs2/gc.c:253 jffs2_reserve_space+0x3f4/0xad0 fs/jffs2/nodemgmt.c:167 jffs2_write_inode_range+0x246/0xb50 fs/jffs2/write.c:362 jffs2_write_end+0x712/0x1110 fs/jffs2/file.c:302 generic_perform_write+0x2c2/0x500 mm/filemap.c:3347 __generic_file_write_iter+0x252/0x610 mm/filemap.c:3465 generic_file_write_iter+0xdb/0x230 mm/filemap.c:3497 call_write_iter include/linux/fs.h:2039 [inline] do_iter_readv_writev+0x46d/0x750 fs/read_write.c:740 do_iter_write+0x18c/0x710 fs/read_write.c:866 vfs_writev+0x1db/0x6a0 fs/read_write.c:939 do_pwritev fs/read_write.c:1036 [inline] __do_sys_pwritev fs/read_write.c:1083 [inline] __se_sys_pwritev fs/read_write.c:1078 [inline] __x64_sys_pwritev+0x235/0x310 fs/read_write.c:1078 do_syscall_64+0x30/0x40 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x67/0xd1 Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with Syzkaller.

CVSS metrics

3 scores · 3 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.22%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

11%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

+0.03 pp

From 0.19% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
0.22%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Ubuntu146 products
  • linuxAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 5.15.0-156.166 | < 6.8.0-100.100
  • linux-allwinner-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-awsAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 5.15.0-1092.99 | < 6.8.0-1046.49
  • linux-aws-5.0All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws-5.11All versions (No fix recorded)
Debian2 products
Linux2 products
  • linux≥ 2f785402f39b96a077b6e62bf26164bfb8e0c980, < 7e860296d7808de1db175c1eda29f94a2955dcc4 | ≥ 2f785402f39b96a077b6e62bf26164bfb8e0c980, < d96e6451a8d0fe62492d4cc942d695772293c05a | ≥ 2f785402f39b96a077b6e62bf26164bfb8e0c980, < f41c625328777f9ad572901ba0b0065bb9c9c1da | ≥ 2f785402f39b96a077b6e62bf26164bfb8e0c980, < 38d767fb4a7766ec2058f97787e4c6e8d10343d6 | ≥ 2f785402f39b96a077b6e62bf26164bfb8e0c980, < cd42ddddd70abc7127c12b96c8c85dbd080ea56f | ≥ 2f785402f39b96a077b6e62bf26164bfb8e0c980, < d1b81776f337a9b997f797c70ac0a26d838a2168 | ≥ 2f785402f39b96a077b6e62bf26164bfb8e0c980, < 042fa922c84b5080401bcd8897d4ac4919d15075 | ≥ 2f785402f39b96a077b6e62bf26164bfb8e0c980, < 2b6d96503255a3ed676cd70f8368870c6d6a25c6 | 2.6.18
  • linux_kernel≥ 2.6.18, < 5.4.295 | ≥ 5.5, < 5.10.239 | ≥ 5.11, < 5.15.186 | ≥ 5.16, < 6.1.142 | ≥ 6.2, < 6.6.95 | ≥ 6.7, < 6.12.35 | ≥ 6.13, < 6.15.4

3 vendors · 150 products

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