{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-38398 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2025-38398 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 25 Jul 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2025-38398 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2025-38398 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 25 Jul 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-38398 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Linux kernel. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-38398/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-38398/index.md)","id":"CVE-2025-38398","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-38398/index.md","name":"CVE-2025-38398","record":{"aliases":["BELL-CVE-2025-38398","GHSA-pqf9-m843-ppvg","UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38398"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel driver","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"Out-of-bounds memory access in the Linux kernel QPIC SNAND driver can cause system crashes and denial of service.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"memory_corruption"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[{"product":"linux_kernel","vendor":"linux"}],"cvss":{"score":7.8,"severity":"high","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-476","name":"NULL Pointer Dereference"}],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nspi: spi-qpic-snand: reallocate BAM transactions\n\nUsing the mtd_nandbiterrs module for testing the driver occasionally\nresults in weird things like below.\n\n1. swiotlb mapping fails with the following message:\n\n  [   85.926216] qcom_snand 79b0000.spi: swiotlb buffer is full (sz: 4294967294 bytes), total 512 (slots), used 0 (slots)\n  [   85.932937] qcom_snand 79b0000.spi: failure in mapping desc\n  [   87.999314] qcom_snand 79b0000.spi: failure to write raw page\n  [   87.999352] mtd_nandbiterrs: error: write_oob failed (-110)\n\n  Rebooting the board after this causes a panic due to a NULL pointer\n  dereference.\n\n2. If the swiotlb mapping does not fail, rebooting the board may result\n   in a different panic due to a bad spinlock magic:\n\n  [  256.104459] BUG: spinlock bad magic on CPU#3, procd/2241\n  [  256.104488] Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address ffffffff0000049b\n  ...\n\nInvestigating the issue revealed that these symptoms are results of\nmemory corruption which is caused by out of bounds access within the\ndriver.\n\nThe driver uses a dynamically allocated structure for BAM transactions,\nwhich structure must have enough space for all possible variations of\ndifferent flash operations initiated by the driver. The required space\nheavily depends on the actual number of 'codewords' which is calculated\nfrom the pagesize of the actual NAND chip.\n\nAlthough the qcom_nandc_alloc() function allocates memory for the BAM\ntransactions during probe, but since the actual number of 'codewords'\nis not yet know the allocation is done for one 'codeword' only.\n\nBecause of this, whenever the driver does a flash operation, and the\nnumber of the required transactions exceeds the size of the allocated\narrays the driver accesses memory out of the allocated range.\n\nTo avoid this, change the code to free the initially allocated BAM\ntransactions memory, and allocate a new one once the actual number of\n'codewords' required for a given NAND chip is known.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"spi: spi-qpic-snand: reallocate BAM transactions","id":"CVE-2025-38398","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"linux:linux_kernel","products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"type":"memory_corruption","year":"2025"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":2,"next":{"headline":"scsi: target: Fix NULL pointer dereference in core_scsi3_decode_spec_i_port()","id":"CVE-2025-38399"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"nvme-multipath: fix suspicious RCU usage warning","id":"CVE-2025-38397"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2025-07-25","related":[{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Out-of-Bounds Write","id":"CVE-2026-53266","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2026-06-25"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Improper Input Validation","id":"CVE-2013-6282","kev_date_added":"2022-09-15","published":"2013-11-19"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Linux Kernel Heap-Based Buffer Overflow","id":"CVE-2022-0185","kev_date_added":"2024-08-21","published":"2022-02-11"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation","id":"CVE-2013-2094","kev_date_added":"2022-09-15","published":"2013-05-14"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Unspecified","id":"CVE-2026-53362","kev_date_added":"2026-08-27","published":"2026-07-04"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Missing Initialization of a Variable","id":"CVE-2026-46300","kev_date_added":"2026-10-28","published":"2026-05-23"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Race Condition","id":"CVE-2025-39964","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2025-10-13"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-08-05","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"Out-of-bounds memory access in the Linux kernel QPIC SNAND driver can cause system crashes and denial of service.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-38398/"}