# CVE-2025-38458: atm: clip: Fix NULL pointer dereference in vcc_sendmsg()

> A local attacker can crash the Linux kernel by triggering a NULL pointer dereference in the ATM CLIP module's send message function.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** Yes
- **Published:** 25 Jul 2025
- **Updated:** 11 May 2026
- **Also known as:** AZL-65708, AZL-72938, BELL-CVE-2025-38458, DEBIAN-CVE-2025-38458, GHSA-6jr5-7grq-6fxj, ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-11-CVE-2025-38458, ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-12-CVE-2025-38458, ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2204-CVE-2025-38458, ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2404-CVE-2025-38458, UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38458

## What is CVE-2025-38458?

CVE-2025-38458 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 25 Jul 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

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

atm: clip: Fix NULL pointer dereference in vcc_sendmsg()

atmarpd_dev_ops does not implement the send method, which may cause crash
as bellow.

BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000
PGD 0 P4D 0
Oops: Oops: 0010 [#1] SMP KASAN NOPTI
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 5324 Comm: syz.0.0 Not tainted 6.15.0-rc6-syzkaller-00346-g5723cc3450bc #0 PREEMPT(full)
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2~bpo12+1 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:0x0
Code: Unable to access opcode bytes at 0xffffffffffffffd6.
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000d3cf778 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 1ffffffff1910dd1 RBX: 00000000000000c0 RCX: dffffc0000000000
RDX: ffffc9000dc82000 RSI: ffff88803e4c4640 RDI: ffff888052cd0000
RBP: ffffc9000d3cf8d0 R08: ffff888052c9143f R09: 1ffff1100a592287
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 1ffff92001a79f00
R13: ffff888052cd0000 R14: ffff88803e4c4640 R15: ffffffff8c886e88
FS:  00007fbc762566c0(0000) GS:ffff88808d6c2000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: ffffffffffffffd6 CR3: 0000000041f1b000 CR4: 0000000000352ef0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 vcc_sendmsg+0xa10/0xc50 net/atm/common.c:644
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:712 [inline]
 __sock_sendmsg+0x219/0x270 net/socket.c:727
 ____sys_sendmsg+0x52d/0x830 net/socket.c:2566
 ___sys_sendmsg+0x21f/0x2a0 net/socket.c:2620
 __sys_sendmmsg+0x227/0x430 net/socket.c:2709
 __do_sys_sendmmsg net/socket.c:2736 [inline]
 __se_sys_sendmmsg net/socket.c:2733 [inline]
 __x64_sys_sendmmsg+0xa0/0xc0 net/socket.c:2733
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xf6/0x210 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Weakness: CWE-476 (NULL Pointer Dereference)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-38458?

It affects 2 products.


Products: Debian Debian Linux, Linux kernel.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-38458?

Apply the vendor's patch.

## Is CVE-2025-38458 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-38458 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-38458 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-38458 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 25 Jul 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-38458 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Debian Debian Linux. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-38458/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-38458/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38458
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-38458
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-38458

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Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.