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CVE-2025-38528

bpf: Reject %p% format string in bprintf-like helpers PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

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.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected 48cac3f4a96ddf08df8e53809ed066de0dc93915 before 97303e541e12f1fea97834ec64b98991e8775f39; affected 48cac3f4a96ddf08df8e53809ed066de0dc93915 before 61d5fa45ed13e42af14c7e959baba9908b8ee6d4; affected 48cac3f4a96ddf08df8e53809ed066de0dc93915 before e7be679124bae8cf4fa6e40d7e1661baddfb3289; affected 48cac3f4a96ddf08df8e53809ed066de0dc93915 before 6952aeace93f8c9ea01849efecac24dd3152c9c9; affected 48cac3f4a96ddf08df8e53809ed066de0dc93915 before 1c5f5fd47bbda17cb885fe6f03730702cd53d3f8; affected 48cac3f4a96ddf08df8e53809ed066de0dc93915 before f8242745871f81a3ac37f9f51853d12854fd0b58
Linux / Linuxaffected 5.13; unaffected 0 before 5.13; unaffected 5.15.190 through 5.15.*; unaffected 6.1.147 through 6.1.*; unaffected 6.6.100 through 6.6.*; unaffected 6.12.40 through 6.12.*; unaffected 6.15.8 through 6.15.*; unaffected 6.16 through *

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