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Azure Linux 3.0 Security Update: kernel (CVE-2025-38091)

🗓️ 22 Jan 2026 00:00:00Reported by TenableType 
nessus
 nessus
🔗 www.tenable.com👁 4 Views

Kernel update fixes CVE-2025-38091 by correcting a false positive in plane_id check during DML21.

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affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the CVE-2025-38091 advisory.

  - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/amd/display: check stream id dml21
    wrapper to get plane_id [Why & How] Fix a false positive warning which occurs due to lack of correct
    checks when querying plane_id in DML21. This fixes the warning when performing a mode1 reset (cat
    /sys/kernel/debug/dri/1/amdgpu_gpu_recover): [ 35.751250] WARNING: CPU: 11 PID: 326 at
    /tmp/amd.PHpyAl7v/amd/amdgpu/../display/dc/dml2/dml2_dc_resource_mgmt.c:91 dml2_map_dc_pipes+0x243d/0x3f40
    [amdgpu] [ 35.751434] Modules linked in: amdgpu(OE) amddrm_ttm_helper(OE) amdttm(OE) amddrm_buddy(OE)
    amdxcp(OE) amddrm_exec(OE) amd_sched(OE) amdkcl(OE) drm_suballoc_helper drm_ttm_helper ttm
    drm_display_helper cec rc_core i2c_algo_bit rfcomm qrtr cmac algif_hash algif_skcipher af_alg bnep amd_atl
    intel_rapl_msr intel_rapl_common snd_hda_codec_hdmi snd_hda_intel edac_mce_amd snd_intel_dspcfg
    snd_intel_sdw_acpi snd_hda_codec kvm_amd snd_hda_core snd_hwdep snd_pcm kvm snd_seq_midi
    snd_seq_midi_event snd_rawmidi crct10dif_pclmul polyval_clmulni polyval_generic btusb ghash_clmulni_intel
    sha256_ssse3 btrtl sha1_ssse3 snd_seq btintel aesni_intel btbcm btmtk snd_seq_device crypto_simd sunrpc
    cryptd bluetooth snd_timer ccp binfmt_misc rapl snd i2c_piix4 wmi_bmof gigabyte_wmi k10temp i2c_smbus
    soundcore gpio_amdpt mac_hid sch_fq_codel msr parport_pc ppdev lp parport efi_pstore nfnetlink dmi_sysfs
    ip_tables x_tables autofs4 hid_generic usbhid hid crc32_pclmul igc ahci xhci_pci libahci xhci_pci_renesas
    video wmi [ 35.751501] CPU: 11 UID: 0 PID: 326 Comm: kworker/u64:9 Tainted: G OE 6.11.0-21-generic
    #21~24.04.1-Ubuntu [ 35.751504] Tainted: [O]=OOT_MODULE, [E]=UNSIGNED_MODULE [ 35.751505] Hardware name:
    Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. X670E AORUS PRO X/X670E AORUS PRO X, BIOS F30 05/22/2024 [ 35.751506]
    Workqueue: amdgpu-reset-dev amdgpu_debugfs_reset_work [amdgpu] [ 35.751638] RIP:
    0010:dml2_map_dc_pipes+0x243d/0x3f40 [amdgpu] [ 35.751794] Code: 6d 0c 00 00 8b 84 24 88 00 00 00 41 3b 44
    9c 20 0f 84 fc 07 00 00 48 83 c3 01 48 83 fb 06 75 b3 4c 8b 64 24 68 4c 8b 6c 24 40 <0f> 0b b8 06 00 00 00
    49 8b 94 24 a0 49 00 00 89 c3 83 f8 07 0f 87 [ 35.751796] RSP: 0018:ffffbfa3805d7680 EFLAGS: 00010246 [
    35.751798] RAX: 0000000000010000 RBX: 0000000000000006 RCX: 0000000000000000 [ 35.751799] RDX:
    0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000005 RDI: 0000000000000000 [ 35.751800] RBP: ffffbfa3805d78f0 R08:
    0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 [ 35.751801] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12:
    ffffbfa383249000 [ 35.751802] R13: ffffa0e68f280000 R14: ffffbfa383249658 R15: 0000000000000000 [
    35.751803] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffffa0edbe580000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 35.751804] CS:
    0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 35.751805] CR2: 00005d847ef96c58 CR3: 000000041de3e000 CR4:
    0000000000f50ef0 [ 35.751806] PKRU: 55555554 [ 35.751807] Call Trace: [ 35.751810] <TASK> [ 35.751816] ?
    show_regs+0x6c/0x80 [ 35.751820] ? __warn+0x88/0x140 [ 35.751822] ? dml2_map_dc_pipes+0x243d/0x3f40
    [amdgpu] [ 35.751964] ? report_bug+0x182/0x1b0 [ 35.751969] ? handle_bug+0x6e/0xb0 [ 35.751972] ?
    exc_invalid_op+0x18/0x80 [ 35.751974] ? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x1b/0x20 [ 35.751978] ?
    dml2_map_dc_pipes+0x243d/0x3f40 [amdgpu] [ 35.752117] ? math_pow+0x48/0xa0 [amdgpu] [ 35.752256] ?
    srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5 [ 35.752260] ? math_pow+0x48/0xa0 [amdgpu] [ 35.752400] ?
    srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5 [ 35.752403] ? math_pow+0x11/0xa0 [amdgpu] [ 35.752524] ?
    srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5 [ 35.752526] ? core_dcn4_mode_programming+0xe4d/0x20d0 [amdgpu] [
    35.752663] ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5 [ 35.752669] dml21_validate+0x3d4/0x980 [amdgpu] (cherry
    picked from commit f8ad62c0a93e5dd94243e10f1b742232e4d6411e) (CVE-2025-38091)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version
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include('rpm.inc');

if (!get_kb_item('Host/local_checks_enabled')) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
var release = get_kb_item('Host/AzureLinux/release');
if (isnull(release) || 'Azure Linux' >!< release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Azure Linux');
var os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "Azure Linux ([0-9]+(\.[0-9]+)?)", string:release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, 'Azure Linux');
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (! preg(pattern:"^3([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Azure Linux 3.0', 'Azure Linux ' + os_ver);

if (!get_kb_item('Host/AzureLinux/rpm-list')) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);

var cpu = get_kb_item('Host/cpu');
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ('x86_64' >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$" && 'aarch64' >!< cpu)
  audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, 'Azure Linux', cpu);

var pkgs = [
    {'reference':'bpftool-6.6.92.2-2.azl3', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'3.0', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'bpftool-6.6.92.2-2.azl3', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'3.0', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'kernel-6.6.92.2-2.azl3', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'3.0', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'kernel-6.6.92.2-2.azl3', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'3.0', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'kernel-debuginfo-6.6.92.2-2.azl3', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'3.0', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'kernel-debuginfo-6.6.92.2-2.azl3', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'3.0', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'kernel-devel-6.6.92.2-2.azl3', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'3.0', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'kernel-devel-6.6.92.2-2.azl3', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'3.0', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
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    {'reference':'kernel-docs-6.6.92.2-2.azl3', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'3.0', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
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    {'reference':'kernel-drivers-accessibility-6.6.92.2-2.azl3', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'3.0', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'kernel-drivers-gpu-6.6.92.2-2.azl3', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'3.0', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'kernel-drivers-gpu-6.6.92.2-2.azl3', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'3.0', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'kernel-drivers-intree-amdgpu-6.6.92.2-2.azl3', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'3.0', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'kernel-drivers-intree-amdgpu-6.6.92.2-2.azl3', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'3.0', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'kernel-drivers-sound-6.6.92.2-2.azl3', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'3.0', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'kernel-drivers-sound-6.6.92.2-2.azl3', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'3.0', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'kernel-tools-6.6.92.2-2.azl3', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'3.0', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'kernel-tools-6.6.92.2-2.azl3', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'3.0', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'python3-perf-6.6.92.2-2.azl3', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'3.0', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'python3-perf-6.6.92.2-2.azl3', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'3.0', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE}
];

var flag = 0;
foreach var package_array ( pkgs ) {
  var reference = NULL;
  var _release = NULL;
  var sp = NULL;
  var _cpu = NULL;
  var el_string = NULL;
  var rpm_spec_vers_cmp = NULL;
  var epoch = NULL;
  var allowmaj = NULL;
  var exists_check = NULL;
  var cves = NULL;
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['reference'])) reference = package_array['reference'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['release'])) _release = 'Azure Linux ' + package_array['release'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['sp'])) sp = package_array['sp'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['cpu'])) _cpu = package_array['cpu'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['el_string'])) el_string = package_array['el_string'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['rpm_spec_vers_cmp'])) rpm_spec_vers_cmp = package_array['rpm_spec_vers_cmp'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['epoch'])) epoch = package_array['epoch'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['allowmaj'])) allowmaj = package_array['allowmaj'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['exists_check'])) exists_check = package_array['exists_check'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['cves'])) cves = package_array['cves'];
  if (reference && _release && (!exists_check || rpm_exists(release:_release, rpm:exists_check))) {
    if (rpm_check(release:_release, sp:sp, cpu:_cpu, reference:reference, epoch:epoch, el_string:el_string, rpm_spec_vers_cmp:rpm_spec_vers_cmp, allowmaj:allowmaj, cves:cves)) flag++;
  }
}

if (flag)
{
  security_report_v4(
      port       : 0,
      severity   : SECURITY_WARNING,
      extra      : rpm_report_get()
  );
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  var tested = pkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, 'bpftool / kernel / kernel-debuginfo / kernel-devel / kernel-docs / etc');
}

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22 Jan 2026 00:00Current
5.3Medium risk
Vulners AI Score5.3
CVSS 3.17.8
EPSS0.00142
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