CVEvulnerability

CVE-2025-38498

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2025-07-30 Modified 2026-07-30 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2025-07-30
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: do_change_type(): refuse to operate on unmounted/not ours mounts Ensure that propagation settings can only be changed for mounts located in the caller's mount namespace. This change aligns permission checking with the rest of mount(2).

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 2.6.15 < 5.4.295) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.239) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.186) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.142) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.94) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.34) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.15.3) • debian debian linux 11.0

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