CVE-2025-38173 (GCVE-0-2025-38173)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-07-03 08:36 – Updated: 2026-08-05 12:00
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
crypto: marvell/cesa - Handle zero-length skcipher requests
Summary
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.
Severity
7.8 (High)
Assigner
References
10 references
Impacted products
2 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
f63601fd616ab370774fa00ea10bcaaa9e48e84c , < 32d3e8049a8b60f18c5c39f5931bfb1130ac11c9
(git)
Affected: f63601fd616ab370774fa00ea10bcaaa9e48e84c , < c064ae2881d839709bd72d484d5f2af157f46024 (git) Affected: f63601fd616ab370774fa00ea10bcaaa9e48e84c , < e1cc69da619588b1488689fe3535a0ba75a2b0e7 (git) Affected: f63601fd616ab370774fa00ea10bcaaa9e48e84c , < 78ea1ff6cb413a03ff6f7af4e28e24b4461a0965 (git) Affected: f63601fd616ab370774fa00ea10bcaaa9e48e84c , < 5e9666ac8b94c978690f937d59170c5237bd2c45 (git) Affected: f63601fd616ab370774fa00ea10bcaaa9e48e84c , < 7894694b5d5b2ecfd7fb081d6f60b9e169ab4d13 (git) Affected: f63601fd616ab370774fa00ea10bcaaa9e48e84c , < c9610dda42bd382a96f97e68825cb5f66cd9e1dc (git) Affected: f63601fd616ab370774fa00ea10bcaaa9e48e84c , < 8a4e047c6cc07676f637608a9dd675349b5de0a7 (git) |
guessed | |
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
4.2
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.2 (semver) Unaffected: 5.4.295 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.10.239 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.15.186 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.1.142 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.6.94 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.12.34 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.15.3 , ≤ 6.15.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.16 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix) |
guessed |
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Experimental. This forecast is provided for visualization only and may change without notice. Do not use it for operational decisions.
Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.
Sightings
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Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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