CVE-2025-38061: 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: net: pktgen: fix access outside of user given buffer in pktgen_thread_write() Honour the user given buffer size for the strn_len() calls (otherwise strn_len() will access memory outside of the user given buffer).

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.