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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-38298" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-07-10T07:42:11.553Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-23T15:59:25.573Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:34.152Z" snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38298" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38298.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38298" title: "EDAC/skx_common: Fix general protection fault" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nEDAC/skx_common: Fix general protection fault\n\nAfter loading i10nm_edac (which automatically loads skx_edac_common), if\nunload only i10nm_edac, then reload it and perform error injection testing,\na general protection fault may occur:\n\n mce: [Hardware Error]: Machine check events logged\n Oops: general protection fault ...\n ...\n Workqueue: events mce_gen_pool_process\n RIP: 0010:string+0x53/0xe0\n ...\n Call Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n ? die_addr+0x37/0x90\n ? exc_general_protection+0x1e7/0x3f0\n ? asm_exc_general_protection+0x26/0x30\n ? string+0x53/0xe0\n vsnprintf+0x23e/0x4c0\n snprintf+0x4d/0x70\n skx_adxl_decode+0x16a/0x330 [skx_edac_common]\n skx_mce_check_error.part.0+0xf8/0x220 [skx_edac_common]\n skx_mce_check_error+0x17/0x20 [skx_edac_common]\n ...\n\nThe issue arose was because the variable 'adxl_component_count' (inside\nskx_edac_common), which counts the ADXL components, was not reset. During\nthe reloading of i10nm_edac, the count was incremented by the actual number\nof ADXL components again, resulting in a count that was double the real\nnumber of ADXL components. This led to an out-of-bounds reference to the\nADXL component array, causing the general protection fault above.\n\nFix this issue by resetting the 'adxl_component_count' in adxl_put(),\nwhich is called during the unloading of {skx,i10nm}_edac." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"c68d1dbfe381260e8e30880fa6b8e708e57143f6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"80bf28fd623d97dd4f4825fbbe9d736cec2afba3"},{"version":"3070e81609169b316e3e3f226456950238338d43","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a6ed3a6edff09c1187cc6ade7f5967bca2376a13"},{"version":"2259b26ff45a231579485752bda51acf87c39d18","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"bf6a8502a5f4ff6e4d135d795945cdade49ec8b0"},{"version":"6d0d9f0fd13536ed21b9c0dd576ba292f750a1c1","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e8530ed3c0769a4d8f79c212715ec1cf277787f8"},{"version":"c25ae63de6805589e954b86020f89065b9eca4d4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3f5d0659000923735350da60ad710f8c804544fe"},{"version":"123b158635505c89ed0d3ef45c5845ff9030a466","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a13e8343ffcff27af1ff79597ff7ba241e6d9471"},{"version":"123b158635505c89ed0d3ef45c5845ff9030a466","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"31ef6f7c9aee3be78d63789653e92350f2537f93"},{"version":"123b158635505c89ed0d3ef45c5845ff9030a466","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"20d2d476b3ae18041be423671a8637ed5ffd6958"},{"version":"32700ecf8007e071d1ce4c78f65b85f46d05f32a","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"5.4.282","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.4.295"},{"version":"5.10.224","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.10.239"},{"version":"5.15.165","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.15.186"},{"version":"6.1.103","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.1.142"},{"version":"6.6.44","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.6.94"},{"version":"6.10.3","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.11"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.11","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.11"},{"version":"5.4.295","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.239","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.186","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.142","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.94","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.34","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.15.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.15.*"},{"version":"6.16","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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