CVEvulnerability

CVE-2025-38408

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2025-07-25 Modified 2026-10-15 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2025-07-25
Last modified
2026-10-15
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
Weaknesses
CWE-476

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: genirq/irq_sim: Initialize work context pointers properly Initialize `ops` member's pointers properly by using kzalloc() instead of kmalloc() when allocating the simulation work context. Otherwise the pointers contain random content leading to invalid dereferencing.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 5.8 < 6.12.37) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.15.6) • linux linux kernel 6.16

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness

References