CVE-2025-38408

genirq/irq_sim: Initialize work context pointers properly

HIGH 7.8

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.20 % · percentile 10 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Modified

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.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-476 — NULL Pointer Dereference

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected 337cbeb2c13eb4cab84f576fd402d7ae4ed31ae1 < 186df821de0f34490ed5fc0861243748b2483861 ; affected 337cbeb2c13eb4cab84f576fd402d7ae4ed31ae1 < c71aa4bb528ae6f8fd7577a0a39e5a03c60b04fb ; affected 337cbeb2c13eb4cab84f576fd402d7ae4ed31ae1 < ec3656a8cb428d763def32bc2fa695f94be23629 ; affected 337cbeb2c13eb4cab84f576fd402d7ae4ed31ae1 < 19bd7597858dd15802c1d99fcc38e528f469080a ; affected 337cbeb2c13eb4cab84f576fd402d7ae4ed31ae1 < 7f73d1def72532bac4d55ea8838f457a6bed955c ; affected 337cbeb2c13eb4cab84f576fd402d7ae4ed31ae1 < 8a2277a3c9e4cc5398f80821afe7ecbe9bdf2819
Linux · Linuxaffected 5.8 ; unaffected 0 < 5.8 ; unaffected 5.15.199 ≤ 5.15.* ; unaffected 6.1.162 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.120 ≤ 6.6.* ; unaffected 6.12.37 ≤ 6.12.*

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD