Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-38716

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - hfs: fix general protection fault in hfsfindinit The hfsfindinit method can trigger the crash if tree pointer is NULL: 45.746290 T9787 Oops: general protection...

SUSE CVE-2025-38716

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: hfs: fix general protection fault in hfsfindinit The hfsfindinit method can trigger the crash if tree pointer is NULL: 45.746290 T9787 Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000008: 0000 1...

DEBIAN-CVE-2025-38716

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: hfs: fix general protection fault in hfsfindinit The hfsfindinit method can trigger the crash if tree pointer is NULL: 45.746290 T9787 Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000008: 0000 1...

CVE-2025-38716

CVE-2025-38716 affects the Linux kernel and relates to the hfs_find_init() code path. The vulnerability arises when the tree pointer is NULL, potentially triggering a general protection fault / null pointer dereference during HFS operations (e.g., ext_read_extent, get_block, and subsequent file m...