CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-38273
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2025-07-10
- Last modified
- 2026-07-30
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: tipc: fix refcount warning in tipc_aead_encrypt
syzbot reported a refcount warning [1] caused by calling get_net() on
a network namespace that is being destroyed (refcount=0). This happens
when a TIPC discovery timer fires during network namespace cleanup.
The recently added get_net() call in commit e279024617134 ("net/tipc:
fix slab-use-after-free Read in tipc_aead_encrypt_done") attempts to
hold a reference to the network namespace. However, if the namespace
is already being destroyed, its refcount might be zero, leading to the
use-after-free warning.
Replace get_net() with maybe_get_net(), which safely checks if the
refcount is non-zero before incrementing it. If the namespace is being
destroyed, return -ENODEV early, after releasing the bearer reference.
[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/T/#m12019cf9ae77e1954f666914640efa36d52704a2
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.12.31 < 6.12.34)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.14.9 < 6.15)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.15.1 < 6.15.3)
• linux linux kernel 5.10.238
• linux linux kernel 5.15.185
• linux linux kernel 6.1.141
• linux linux kernel 6.6.93
• linux linux kernel 6.15
• debian debian linux 11.0
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/307391e8fe70401a6d39ecc9978e13c2c0cdf81f Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/445d59025d76d0638b03110f8791d5b89ed5162d Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9ff60e0d9974dccf24e89bcd3ee7933e538d929f Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/acab7ca5ff19889b80a8ee7dec220ee1a96dede9 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c762fc79d710d676b793f9d98b1414efe6eb51e6 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e0b11227c4e8eb4bdf1b86aa8f0f3abb24e0f029 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f29ccaa07cf3d35990f4d25028cc55470d29372b Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00007.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00008.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory