CVE-2025-38173high

CVE-2025-38173: high-severity vulnerability in Linux

crypto: marvell/cesa - Handle zero-length skcipher requests

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21Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackcvss 7.8epss 0.2%
exploitation probability
0.2%top 92% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: crypto: marvell/cesa - Handle zero-length skcipher requests Do not access random memory for zero-length skcipher requests. Just return 0.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
Linux · Linux
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References
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/32d3e8049a8b60f18c5c39f5931bfb1130ac11c9https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5e9666ac8b94c978690f937d59170c5237bd2c45https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7894694b5d5b2ecfd7fb081d6f60b9e169ab4d13https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/78ea1ff6cb413a03ff6f7af4e28e24b4461a0965https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8a4e047c6cc07676f637608a9dd675349b5de0a7https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c064ae2881d839709bd72d484d5f2af157f46024https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c9610dda42bd382a96f97e68825cb5f66cd9e1dchttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e1cc69da619588b1488689fe3535a0ba75a2b0e7https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00007.htmlhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00008.html