CVE-2025-38636

Technical Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

rv: Use strings in da monitors tracepoints

Using DA monitors tracepoints with KASAN enabled triggers the following

warning:

BUG: KASAN: global-out-of-bounds in do_trace_event_raw_event_event_da_monitor+0xd6/0x1a0

Read of size 32 at addr ffffffffaada8980 by task ...

Call Trace:

<TASK>

[...]

do_trace_event_raw_event_event_da_monitor+0xd6/0x1a0

? __pfx_do_trace_event_raw_event_event_da_monitor+0x10/0x10

? trace_event_sncid+0x83/0x200

trace_event_sncid+0x163/0x200

[...]

The buggy address belongs to the variable:

automaton_snep+0x4e0/0x5e0

This is caused by the tracepoints reading 32 bytes __array instead of

__string from the automata definition. Such strings are literals and

reading 32 bytes ends up in out of bound memory accesses (e.g. the next

automaton's data in this case).

The error is harmless as, while printing the string, we stop at the null

terminator, but it should still be fixed.

Use the __

Remediation

Check the references section for vendor advisories and patches from linux. Update linux_kernel to the latest patched version. If immediate patching is not possible, review the CVSS vector to understand the attack surface and apply compensating controls such as network segmentation or access restrictions.

Affected Products

References