CVE-2025-38173
High
crypto: marvell/cesa - Handle zero-length skcipher requests
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.
Exploit probability
0.2%
Published
July 3, 2025
Required by
Not available
Last source change
August 12, 2026
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
Open Source Vulnerabilities
CVE-2025-38173
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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.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/32d3e8049a8b60f18c5c39f5931bfb1130ac11c9
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5e9666ac8b94c978690f937d59170c5237bd2c45
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7894694b5d5b2ecfd7fb081d6f60b9e169ab4d13
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/78ea1ff6cb413a03ff6f7af4e28e24b4461a0965
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8a4e047c6cc07676f637608a9dd675349b5de0a7
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c064ae2881d839709bd72d484d5f2af157f46024
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c9610dda42bd382a96f97e68825cb5f66cd9e1dc
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e1cc69da619588b1488689fe3535a0ba75a2b0e7
- https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/38xxx/CVE-2025-38173.json
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00007.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00008.html
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-38173