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CVE-2025-38197: platform/x86: dell_rbu: Fix list usage

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-07-04 · updated 2026-10-15
• Weakness: CWE-476

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: platform/x86: dell_rbu: Fix list usage Pass the correct list head to list_for_each_entry*() when looping through the packet list. Without this patch, reading the packet data via sysfs will show the data incorrectly (because it starts at the wrong packet), and clearing the packet list will result in a NULL pointer dereference.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 11.0
• Linux kernel: from 5.7 before 5.10.239; from 5.11 before 5.15.186; from 5.16 before 6.1.142; from 6.2 before 6.6.95; from 6.7 before 6.12.35; from 6.13 before 6.15.4 — fixed in 5.10.239, 5.15.186, 6.1.142, 6.12.35, 6.15.4, 6.6.95

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Linux kernel 5.10.239, 5.15.186, 6.1.142, 6.12.35. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/07d7b8e7ef7d1f812a6211ed531947c56d09e95e
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/32d05e6cc3a7bf6c8f16f7b7ef8fe80eca0c233e
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4d71f2c1e5263a9f042faa71d59515709869dc79
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5e8c658acd1b7c186aeffa46bf08795e121f401a
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/61ce04601e0d8265ec6d2ffa6df5a7e1bce64854
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a7b477b64ef5e37cb08dd536ae07c46f9f28262e
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f3b840fb1508a80cd8a0efb5c886ae1995a88b24
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00007.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00008.html

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