CVE-2025-38173: 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: crypto: marvell/cesa - Handle zero-length skcipher requests Do not access random memory for zero-length skcipher requests. Just return 0.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 11.0 only
• Linux Linux Kernel: from 4.2, before 5.4.295 (fixed in 5.4.295); from 5.5, before 5.10.239 (fixed in 5.10.239); from 5.11, before 5.15.186 (fixed in 5.15.186); from 5.16, before 6.1.142 (fixed in 6.1.142); from 6.2, before 6.6.94 (fixed in 6.6.94); from 6.7, before 6.12.34 (fixed in 6.12.34); …

Published 2025-07-03. Last modified 2026-07-30.