CVE-2025-38569

MEDIUM
MEDIUM Priority: 0.01 BB Relevance: 36/100
Published: 2025-08-19 Modified: 2026-11-05 First seen: 2026-11-05 Status: active

Attack Surface

Low Complexity No Interaction

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV: Local
AC: Low
PR: Low
UI: None
S: Unchanged
C: None
I: None
A: High

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: benet: fix BUG when creating VFs benet crashes as soon as SRIOV VFs are created: kernel BUG at mm/vmalloc.c:3457! Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN NOPTI CPU: 4 UID: 0 PID: 7408 Comm: test.sh Kdump: loaded Not tainted 6.16.0+ #1 PREEMPT(voluntary) [...] RIP: 0010:vunmap+0x5f/0x70 [...] Call Trace: <TASK> __iommu_dma_free+0xe8/0x1c0 be_cmd_set_mac_list+0x3fe/0x640 [be2net] be_cmd_set_mac+0xaf/0x110 [be2net] be_vf_eth_addr_config+0x19f/0x330 [be2net] be_vf_setup+0x4f7/0x990 [be2net] be_pci_sriov_configure+0x3a1/0x470 [be2net] sriov_numvfs_store+0x20b/0x380 kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x354/0x530 vfs_write+0x9b9/0xf60 ksys_write+0xf3/0x1d0 do_syscall_64+0x8c/0x3d0 be_cmd_set_mac_list() calls dma_free_coherent() under a spin_lock_bh. Fix it by freeing only after the lock has been released.

Weakness Classification (1)

Affected Software (23)

VendorProductVersion
Linux Linux 797bb9439c0489bbea4b8808297ec7a569098667 < 3697e37e012bbd2bb5a5b467689811ba097b2eff
Linux Linux 7cfae8627511361f90a1a22dfae556c3fbc5bd8d < 975e73b9102d844a3dc3f091ad631c56145c8b4c
Linux Linux 671aaa17bd3153e25526934f92307169ce927b5e < f80b34ebc579216407b128e9d155bfcae875c30f
Linux Linux 4393452e6c0c027971ec9bcc9557f52e63db3f0a < 46d44a23a3723a89deeb65b13cddb17f8d9f2700
Linux Linux 41d731e7920387ea13e2fb440a1e235686faeeb9 < c377ba2be9430d165a98e4b782902ed630bc7546
Linux Linux fd1ef3b1bdd3fec683ebd19eb3acc6a2cb60b5c6 < 0ddfe8b127ef1149fddccb79db6e6eaba7738e7d
Linux Linux 1a82d19ca2d6835904ee71e2d40fd331098f94a0 < d5dc09ee5d74277bc47193fe28ce8703e229331b
Linux Linux 1a82d19ca2d6835904ee71e2d40fd331098f94a0 < f4e4e0c4bc4d799d6fa39055acdbc3af066cd13e
Linux Linux 1a82d19ca2d6835904ee71e2d40fd331098f94a0 < 5a40f8af2ba1b9bdf46e2db10e8c9710538fbc63
Linux Linux 227a829c9067bf03b1967e7e0b1a6777fd57edef
Linux Linux 5.4.291 < 5.4.297
Linux Linux 5.10.235 < 5.10.241
Linux Linux 5.15.179 < 5.15.190
Linux Linux 6.1.131 < 6.1.148
Linux Linux 6.6.83 < 6.6.102
Linux Linux 6.12.19 < 6.12.42
Linux Linux 6.13.7 < 6.14
Linux Linux 6.14
debian debian_linux 11.0
linux linux_kernel 5.4.291 – 5.4.297
linux linux_kernel 6.14
linux linux_kernel 6.14
linux linux_kernel 6.14

Bug Bounty Relevance

36 / 100
✓ Low complexity
✓ No user interaction

CVSS Score

5.5 / 10.0 v3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS — Exploitation Probability

0.19%
Raw Score 0.001950
Percentile 9.4%
Date 2026-11-13

EPSS Trend

2026-11-13
0.00195
2026-11-12
0.00194
2026-11-10
0.00194
2026-11-09
0.00194
2026-11-08
0.00183
2026-11-07
0.00183
2026-11-06
0.00183
2026-11-05
0.00183

Intelligence Sources

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