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AV AC PR UI S C I A CVSS EPSS %ile KEV L L L N U N N H 5.5 .0016 5.7 —
AFFECTED Product Versions Fixed Linux 48cac3f4a96ddf08df8e53809ed066de0dc93915 – — Linux 5.13 – 5.15.190
TIMELINE Apr 16 Reserved by Linux Aug 16 Published (CNA: Linux) Jul 30 RESCORED — CVE-2025-38528 (Linux). CVSS 7.1 → 5.5 (NVD).
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: Reject %p% format string in bprintf-like helpers static const char fmt[] = "%p%"; bpf_trace_printk(fmt, sizeof(fmt)); The above BPF program isn't rejected and causes a kernel warning at runtime: Please remove unsupported %\x00 in format string WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 7244 at lib/vsprintf.c:2680 format_decode+0x49c/0x5d0 This happens because bpf_bprintf_prepare skips over the second %, detected as punctuation, while processing %p. This patch fixes it by not skipping over punctuation. %\x00 is then processed in the next iteration and rejected.
| Date | Event | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| April 16, 2025 | Reserved | Reserved by Linux |
| August 16, 2025 | Published | Published (CNA: Linux) |
| July 30, 2026 | RESCORED | RESCORED — CVE-2025-38528 (Linux). CVSS 7.1 → 5.5 (NVD). |
Authoritative record: CVE-2025-38528 at cve.org
Vendors: linux
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