Memory leak in Linux kernel - CVE-2025-38417

Vulnerability identifier: #VU113233

CSH Severity: Low

CVSS v4: 6.8 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2025-38417

CWE-ID: CWE-401

Exploitation vector: Local access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

The vulnerability allows a local user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to memory leak within the ice_eswitch_attach_vf() function in drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_eswitch.c. A local user can perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

Linux kernel
SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64
Development Tools Module
SUSE Linux Enterprise Live Patching
Public Cloud Module
SUSE Real Time Module
Legacy Module
Basesystem Module
Ubuntu
kernel-livepatch-6_4_0-150700_7_13-rt
kernel-livepatch-SLE15-SP7-RT_Update_3-debugsource
kernel-livepatch-6_4_0-150700_7_13-rt-debuginfo
kernel-livepatch-SLE15-SP7_Update_3-debugsource
kernel-livepatch-6_4_0-150700_53_11-default
kernel-livepatch-6_4_0-150700_53_11-default-debuginfo
kernel (Red Hat package)
kernel-rt-devel-debuginfo
dlm-kmp-rt
kernel-rt
kernel-devel-rt
kernel-source-rt
dlm-kmp-rt-debuginfo
kernel-rt-debugsource
gfs2-kmp-rt
kernel-rt-debuginfo
ocfs2-kmp-rt-debuginfo
gfs2-kmp-rt-debuginfo
cluster-md-kmp-rt
cluster-md-kmp-rt-debuginfo
ocfs2-kmp-rt
kernel-rt-devel
kernel-syms-rt
kernel-azure-debuginfo
kernel-azure
kernel-azure-devel
kernel-azure-debugsource
kernel-azure-devel-debuginfo
kernel-syms-azure
kernel-devel-azure
kernel-source-azure
dlm-kmp-default-debuginfo
gfs2-kmp-default
dlm-kmp-default
cluster-md-kmp-default-debuginfo
ocfs2-kmp-default
gfs2-kmp-default-debuginfo
cluster-md-kmp-default
ocfs2-kmp-default-debuginfo
kernel-default-extra-debuginfo
kernel-default-extra
kernel-syms
kernel-default-livepatch
kernel-default-livepatch-devel
reiserfs-kmp-default
kernel-64kb
kernel-64kb-devel
kernel-64kb-devel-debuginfo
kernel-64kb-debugsource
kernel-64kb-debuginfo
kernel-default
kernel-default-devel-debuginfo
kernel-default-debuginfo
kernel-default-devel
kernel-default-debugsource
kernel-macros
kernel-zfcpdump
kernel-zfcpdump-debugsource
kernel-zfcpdump-debuginfo
kernel-obs-build
kernel-obs-build-debugsource
kernel-source
reiserfs-kmp-default-debuginfo
kernel-devel
kernel-default-base
kernel-docs
linux (Ubuntu package)
linux-hwe-6.14 (Ubuntu package)
linux-azure (Ubuntu package)
linux-realtime-6.14 (Ubuntu package)
linux-aws-6.14 (Ubuntu package)
linux-gcp-6.14 (Ubuntu package)

Install update from vendor's repository.

kernel-livepatch-6_4_0-150700_7_13-rt - update to 1-150700.1.5.1
kernel-livepatch-SLE15-SP7-RT_Update_3-debugsource - update to 1-150700.1.5.1
kernel-livepatch-6_4_0-150700_7_13-rt-debuginfo - update to 1-150700.1.5.1
kernel-livepatch-SLE15-SP7_Update_3-debugsource - update to 1-150700.15.3.4
kernel-livepatch-6_4_0-150700_53_11-default - update to 1-150700.15.3.4
kernel-livepatch-6_4_0-150700_53_11-default-debuginfo - update to 1-150700.15.3.4
kernel (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 5.14.0-570.37.1.el9_6, 6.12.0-55.29.1.el10_0
kernel-rt-devel-debuginfo - update to 6.4.0-150700.7.13.1
dlm-kmp-rt - update to 6.4.0-150700.7.13.1
kernel-rt - update to 6.4.0-150700.7.13.1
kernel-devel-rt - update to 6.4.0-150700.7.13.1
kernel-source-rt - update to 6.4.0-150700.7.13.1
dlm-kmp-rt-debuginfo - update to 6.4.0-150700.7.13.1
kernel-rt-debugsource - update to 6.4.0-150700.7.13.1
gfs2-kmp-rt - update to 6.4.0-150700.7.13.1
kernel-rt-debuginfo - update to 6.4.0-150700.7.13.1
ocfs2-kmp-rt-debuginfo - update to 6.4.0-150700.7.13.1
gfs2-kmp-rt-debuginfo - update to 6.4.0-150700.7.13.1
cluster-md-kmp-rt - update to 6.4.0-150700.7.13.1
cluster-md-kmp-rt-debuginfo - update to 6.4.0-150700.7.13.1
ocfs2-kmp-rt - update to 6.4.0-150700.7.13.1
kernel-rt-devel - update to 6.4.0-150700.7.13.1
kernel-syms-rt - update to 6.4.0-150700.7.13.1
kernel-azure-debuginfo - update to 6.4.0-150700.20.11.1
kernel-azure - update to 6.4.0-150700.20.11.1
kernel-azure-devel - update to 6.4.0-150700.20.11.1
kernel-azure-debugsource - update to 6.4.0-150700.20.11.1
kernel-azure-devel-debuginfo - update to 6.4.0-150700.20.11.1
kernel-syms-azure - update to 6.4.0-150700.20.11.1
kernel-devel-azure - update to 6.4.0-150700.20.11.1
kernel-source-azure - update to 6.4.0-150700.20.11.1
dlm-kmp-default-debuginfo - update to 6.4.0-150700.53.11.1
gfs2-kmp-default - update to 6.4.0-150700.53.11.1
dlm-kmp-default - update to 6.4.0-150700.53.11.1
cluster-md-kmp-default-debuginfo - update to 6.4.0-150700.53.11.1
ocfs2-kmp-default - update to 6.4.0-150700.53.11.1
gfs2-kmp-default-debuginfo - update to 6.4.0-150700.53.11.1
cluster-md-kmp-default - update to 6.4.0-150700.53.11.1
ocfs2-kmp-default-debuginfo - update to 6.4.0-150700.53.11.1
kernel-default-extra-debuginfo - update to 6.4.0-150700.53.11.1
kernel-default-extra - update to 6.4.0-150700.53.11.1
kernel-syms - update to 6.4.0-150700.53.11.1
kernel-default-livepatch - update to 6.4.0-150700.53.11.1
kernel-default-livepatch-devel - update to 6.4.0-150700.53.11.1
reiserfs-kmp-default - update to 6.4.0-150700.53.11.1
kernel-64kb - update to 6.4.0-150700.53.11.1
kernel-64kb-devel - update to 6.4.0-150700.53.11.1
kernel-64kb-devel-debuginfo - update to 6.4.0-150700.53.11.1
kernel-64kb-debugsource - update to 6.4.0-150700.53.11.1
kernel-64kb-debuginfo - update to 6.4.0-150700.53.11.1
kernel-default - update to 6.4.0-150700.53.11.1
kernel-default-devel-debuginfo - update to 6.4.0-150700.53.11.1
kernel-default-debuginfo - update to 6.4.0-150700.53.11.1
kernel-default-devel - update to 6.4.0-150700.53.11.1
kernel-default-debugsource - update to 6.4.0-150700.53.11.1
kernel-macros - update to 6.4.0-150700.53.11.1
kernel-zfcpdump - update to 6.4.0-150700.53.11.1
kernel-zfcpdump-debugsource - update to 6.4.0-150700.53.11.1
kernel-zfcpdump-debuginfo - update to 6.4.0-150700.53.11.1
kernel-obs-build - update to 6.4.0-150700.53.11.1
kernel-obs-build-debugsource - update to 6.4.0-150700.53.11.1
kernel-source - update to 6.4.0-150700.53.11.1
reiserfs-kmp-default-debuginfo - update to 6.4.0-150700.53.11.1
kernel-devel - update to 6.4.0-150700.53.11.1
kernel-default-base - update to 6.4.0-150700.53.11.1.150700.17.9.4
kernel-docs - update to 6.4.0-150700.53.11.3
linux (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 6.14.0-34.34, 6.14.0-1014.14~24.04.1, 6.14.0-1015.15, 6.14.0-1015.15~24.04.1, 6.14.0-1016.16, 6.14.0-1018.19
linux-hwe-6.14 (Ubuntu package) - update to 6.14.0-34.34~24.04.1
linux-azure (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 6.14.0-1007.7+25.10.1, 6.14.0-1014.14, 6.14.0-1014.14~24.04.1
linux-realtime-6.14 (Ubuntu package) - update to 6.14.0-1014.14~24.04.1
linux-aws-6.14 (Ubuntu package) - update to 6.14.0-1015.15~24.04.1
linux-gcp-6.14 (Ubuntu package) - update to 6.14.0-1018.19~24.04.1

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/48c8b214974dc55283bd5f12e3a483b27c403bbc
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d6715193de439b79f1d6a4c03593c7529239b545
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e97a7a051b55f55f276c1568491d0ed7f890ee94

• Memory leak in Linux kernel intel ice driver
• SUSE update for the Linux Kernel
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 update for kernel
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 update for kernel
• SUSE update for the Linux Kernel
• SUSE update for the Linux Kernel
• Ubuntu update for linux-realtime-6.14
• Ubuntu update for linux-azure
• Ubuntu update for linux
• Ubuntu update for linux-aws-6.14
• Ubuntu update for linux-gcp-6.14
• Ubuntu update for linux-hwe-6.14