Riskcovery

CVE-2025-38077

platform/x86: dell-wmi-sysman: Avoid buffer overflow in current_password_store()

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Jun 18, 2025
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
Apr 16, 2025

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

platform/x86: dell-wmi-sysman: Avoid buffer overflow in current_password_store()

If the 'buf' array received from the user contains an empty string, the 'length' variable will be zero. Accessing the 'buf' array element with index 'length - 1' will result in a buffer overflow.

Add a check for an empty string.

Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • e8a60aa7404bfef37705da5607c97737073ac38d to before fb7cde625872709b8cedad9b241e0ec3d82fa7d3Affected
  • e8a60aa7404bfef37705da5607c97737073ac38d to before 60bd13f8c4b3de2c910ae1cdbef85b9bbc9685f5Affected
  • e8a60aa7404bfef37705da5607c97737073ac38d to before f86465626917df3b8bdd2756ec0cc9d179c5af0fAffected
  • e8a60aa7404bfef37705da5607c97737073ac38d to before 8594a123cfa23d708582dc6fb36da34479ef8a5bAffected
  • e8a60aa7404bfef37705da5607c97737073ac38d to before 97066373ffd55bd9af0b512ff3dd1f647620a3dcAffected
  • e8a60aa7404bfef37705da5607c97737073ac38d to before 4e89a4077490f52cde652d17e32519b666abf3a6Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.11Affected
  • before 5.11Not affected
  • 5.15.185 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.1.141 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.93 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.31 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.14.9 through 6.14.*Not affected
  • 6.15 and laterNot affected

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