CVE-2025-38044: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: cx231xx: set device_caps for 417 The video_device for the MPEG encoder did not set device_caps. Add this, otherwise the video device can't be registered (you get a WARN_ON instead). Not seen before since currently 417 support is disabled, but I found this while experimenting with it.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 11.0 only
• Linux Linux Kernel: before 5.4.294 (fixed in 5.4.294); from 5.5, before 5.10.238 (fixed in 5.10.238); from 5.11, before 5.15.185 (fixed in 5.15.185); from 5.16, before 6.1.141 (fixed in 6.1.141); from 6.2, before 6.6.93 (fixed in 6.6.93); from 6.7, before 6.12.31 (fixed in 6.12.31); …

Published 2025-06-18. Last modified 2026-06-17.