{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-38442 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2025-38442 is a medium-severity 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-2025-38442 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2025-38442 is a medium-severity 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-2025-38442 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-2025-38442/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-38442/index.md)","id":"CVE-2025-38442","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-38442/index.md","name":"CVE-2025-38442","record":{"aliases":["BELL-CVE-2025-38442","GHSA-p7jf-wq44-hqq3","UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38442"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":true,"product_category":"Linux kernel","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"A null pointer dereference in the Linux kernel block layer causes a system panic during boot when Transparent Huge Pages are disabled and a block device with a large logical block size is present.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"null_dereference"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[{"product":"linux_kernel","vendor":"linux"}],"cvss":{"score":5.5,"severity":"medium","source":"nvd","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/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\nblock: reject bs \u003e ps block devices when THP is disabled\n\nIf THP is disabled and when a block device with logical block size \u003e\npage size is present, the following null ptr deref panic happens during\nboot:\n\n[   [13.2 mK  AOSAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000K0 0 0[07]\n[   13.017749] RIP: 0010:create_empty_buffers+0x3b/0x380\n\u003csnip\u003e\n[   13.025448] Call Trace:\n[   13.025692]  \u003cTASK\u003e\n[   13.025895]  block_read_full_folio+0x610/0x780\n[   13.026379]  ? __pfx_blkdev_get_block+0x10/0x10\n[   13.027008]  ? __folio_batch_add_and_move+0x1fa/0x2b0\n[   13.027548]  ? __pfx_blkdev_read_folio+0x10/0x10\n[   13.028080]  filemap_read_folio+0x9b/0x200\n[   13.028526]  ? __pfx_filemap_read_folio+0x10/0x10\n[   13.029030]  ? __filemap_get_folio+0x43/0x620\n[   13.029497]  do_read_cache_folio+0x155/0x3b0\n[   13.029962]  ? __pfx_blkdev_read_folio+0x10/0x10\n[   13.030381]  read_part_sector+0xb7/0x2a0\n[   13.030805]  read_lba+0x174/0x2c0\n\u003csnip\u003e\n[   13.045348]  nvme_scan_ns+0x684/0x850 [nvme_core]\n[   13.045858]  ? __pfx_nvme_scan_ns+0x10/0x10 [nvme_core]\n[   13.046414]  ? _raw_spin_unlock+0x15/0x40\n[   13.046843]  ? __switch_to+0x523/0x10a0\n[   13.047253]  ? kvm_clock_get_cycles+0x14/0x30\n[   13.047742]  ? __pfx_nvme_scan_ns_async+0x10/0x10 [nvme_core]\n[   13.048353]  async_run_entry_fn+0x96/0x4f0\n[   13.048787]  process_one_work+0x667/0x10a0\n[   13.049219]  worker_thread+0x63c/0xf60\n\nAs large folio support depends on THP, only allow bs \u003e ps block devices\nif THP is enabled.","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":"block: reject bs \u003e ps block devices when THP is disabled","id":"CVE-2025-38442","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"linux:linux_kernel","products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"type":"null_dereference","year":"2025"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":2,"next":{"headline":"nbd: fix uaf in nbd_genl_connect() error path","id":"CVE-2025-38443"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"netfilter: flowtable: account for Ethernet header in nf_flow_pppoe_proto()","id":"CVE-2025-38441"},"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":"2026-05-11","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A null pointer dereference in the Linux kernel block layer causes a system panic during boot when Transparent Huge Pages are disabled and a block device with a large logical block size is present.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-38442/"}