Astra Linux – Vulnerability found in Linux 6.1, Linux 6.12

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: BPF: Narrow access to the pointer ctx fields is now rejected. The following BPF program, simplified from a syzkaller repro, causes a kernel warning: c r0 = u8 r1 + 169; exit; Here, the pointer field sk is located at offset 168 in...

SUSE CVE-2025-38591

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: Reject narrower access to pointer ctx fields The following BPF program, simplified from a syzkaller repro, causes a kernel warning: r0 = u8 r1 + 169; exit; With pointer field sk being at offset 168 in skbuff. This access is...

AZL-71033 CVE-2025-38591 affecting package kernel 5.15.200.1-1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: Reject narrower access to pointer ctx fields The following BPF program, simplified from a syzkaller repro, causes a kernel warning: r0 = u8 r1 + 169; exit; With pointer field sk being at offset 168 in skbuff. This access is...

DEBIAN-CVE-2025-38591

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: Reject narrower access to pointer ctx fields The following BPF program, simplified from a syzkaller repro, causes a kernel warning: r0 = u8 r1 + 169; exit; With pointer field sk being at offset 168 in skbuff. This access is...

CVE-2025-38591

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: Reject narrower access to pointer ctx fields The following BPF program, simplified from a syzkaller repro, causes a kernel warning: r0 = u8 r1 + 169; exit; With pointer field sk being at offset 168 in skbuff. This access is...

CVE-2025-38591

CVE-2025-38591 affects the Linux kernel and is resolved by a patch in the BPF verifier. The issue involved a narrowing context access check in BPF, where a program attempted to read a pointer field (offset 169) in __sk_buff (field sk at offset 168). The verifier incorrectly allowed this “narrower...