{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 2 products.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-38497 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2025-38497 is a high-severity vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 28 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-2025-38497 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2025-38497 is a high-severity vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 28 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-2025-38497 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Debian Debian Linux. 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-2025-38497/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-38497/index.md)","id":"CVE-2025-38497","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-38497/index.md","name":"CVE-2025-38497","record":{"aliases":["BELL-CVE-2025-38497","DEBIAN-CVE-2025-38497","GHSA-qhvh-q9v2-923q","ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-11-CVE-2025-38497","ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-12-CVE-2025-38497","ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2204-CVE-2025-38497","ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2404-CVE-2025-38497","UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38497"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel USB gadget","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"A local attacker can cause a kernel crash by writing an empty string to specific USB gadget configfs attributes, leading to denial of service.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"null_dereference"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[{"product":"debian_linux","vendor":"debian"},{"product":"linux_kernel","vendor":"linux"}],"cvss":{"score":7.1,"severity":"high","source":"nvd","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-125","name":"Out-of-bounds Read"}],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nusb: gadget: configfs: Fix OOB read on empty string write\n\nWhen writing an empty string to either 'qw_sign' or 'landingPage'\nsysfs attributes, the store functions attempt to access page[l - 1]\nbefore validating that the length 'l' is greater than zero.\n\nThis patch fixes the vulnerability by adding a check at the beginning\nof os_desc_qw_sign_store() and webusb_landingPage_store() to handle\nthe zero-length input case gracefully by returning immediately.","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":"usb: gadget: configfs: Fix OOB read on empty string write","id":"CVE-2025-38497","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"debian:debian_linux","products":["debian:debian_linux","linux:linux_kernel"],"type":"null_dereference","year":"2025"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":8,"next":{"headline":"do_change_type(): refuse to operate on unmounted/not ours mounts","id":"CVE-2025-38498"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"dm-bufio: fix sched in atomic context","id":"CVE-2025-38496"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2025-07-28","related":[{"cvss_score":10,"headline":"ProFTPD Improper Access Control","id":"CVE-2015-3306","kev_date_added":"2026-10-08","published":"2015-05-18"},{"cvss_score":9.9,"headline":"RoundCube Webmail Deserialization of Untrusted Data","id":"CVE-2025-49113","kev_date_added":"2026-02-20","published":"2025-06-02"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"GNU InetUtils Argument Injection","id":"CVE-2026-24061","kev_date_added":"2026-01-26","published":"2026-01-21"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions","id":"CVE-2025-39682","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2025-09-05"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Mozilla Firefox Use-After-Free","id":"CVE-2024-9680","kev_date_added":"2024-10-15","published":"2024-10-09"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"RARLAB UnRAR Directory Traversal","id":"CVE-2022-30333","kev_date_added":"2022-08-09","published":"2022-05-09"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Roundcube Webmail SQL Injection","id":"CVE-2021-44026","kev_date_added":"2023-06-22","published":"2021-11-19"}],"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 local attacker can cause a kernel crash by writing an empty string to specific USB gadget configfs attributes, leading to denial of service.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-38497/"}