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CVE-2025-38528

HIGH · CVSS 7.1 EPSS 0.16%

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2025-08-16 · Last synced 2026-08-04

CyberRota Analysis

This is a high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 7.1. It affects Linux.

CVE
CVE-2025-38528
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.1
EPSS
0.16%
Linux

Original NVD Description

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.

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