# CVE-2025-39683: tracing: Limit access to parser->buffer when trace_get_user failed

> A local attacker can trigger a slab-out-of-bounds read in the Linux kernel tracing subsystem by writing an overly long string to set_ftrace_filter, causing a system crash.

- **Severity:** High 7.8 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/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:** 5 Sep 2025
- **Updated:** 15 Oct 2026
- **Also known as:** AZL-67037, AZL-73695, BELL-CVE-2025-39683, DEBIAN-CVE-2025-39683, GHSA-jvqc-385v-69q8, ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-11-CVE-2025-39683, ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-12-CVE-2025-39683, ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-13-CVE-2025-39683, ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2204-CVE-2025-39683, ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2404-CVE-2025-39683, UBUNTU-CVE-2025-39683

## What is CVE-2025-39683?

CVE-2025-39683 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 5 Sep 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:

tracing: Limit access to parser->buffer when trace_get_user failed

When the length of the string written to set_ftrace_filter exceeds
FTRACE_BUFF_MAX, the following KASAN alarm will be triggered:

BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in strsep+0x18c/0x1b0
Read of size 1 at addr ffff0000d00bd5ba by task ash/165

CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 165 Comm: ash Not tainted 6.16.0-g6bcdbd62bd56-dirty
Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)
Call trace:
 show_stack+0x34/0x50 (C)
 dump_stack_lvl+0xa0/0x158
 print_address_description.constprop.0+0x88/0x398
 print_report+0xb0/0x280
 kasan_report+0xa4/0xf0
 __asan_report_load1_noabort+0x20/0x30
 strsep+0x18c/0x1b0
 ftrace_process_regex.isra.0+0x100/0x2d8
 ftrace_regex_release+0x484/0x618
 __fput+0x364/0xa58
 ____fput+0x28/0x40
 task_work_run+0x154/0x278
 do_notify_resume+0x1f0/0x220
 el0_svc+0xec/0xf0
 el0t_64_sync_handler+0xa0/0xe8
 el0t_64_sync+0x1ac/0x1b0

The reason is that trace_get_user will fail when processing a string
longer than FTRACE_BUFF_MAX, but not set the end of parser->buffer to 0.
Then an OOB access will be triggered in ftrace_regex_release->
ftrace_process_regex->strsep->strpbrk. We can solve this problem by
limiting access to parser->buffer when trace_get_user failed.

Weakness: CWE-125 (Out-of-bounds Read)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-39683?

It affects 2 products.


Products: Debian Debian Linux, Linux kernel.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-39683?

Apply the vendor's patch.

## Is CVE-2025-39683 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-39683 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-39683 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-39683 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 5 Sep 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-2025-39683 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-2025-39683/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-39683/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-39683
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-39683
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-39683

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-39683/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.