CVE-2025-38206high

CVE-2025-38206: high-severity vulnerability in Linux

exfat: fix double free in delayed_free

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21Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackcvss 7.8epss 0.2%
exploitation probability
0.2%top 92% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: exfat: fix double free in delayed_free The double free could happen in the following path. exfat_create_upcase_table() exfat_create_upcase_table() : return error exfat_free_upcase_table() : free ->vol_utbl exfat_load_default_upcase_table : return error exfat_kill_sb() delayed_free() exfat_free_upcase_table() <--------- double free This patch set ->vol_util as NULL after freeing it.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
Linux · Linux
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References
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/13d8de1b6568dcc31a95534ced16bc0c9a67bc15https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1f3d9724e16d62c7d42c67d6613b8512f2887c22https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/29abaf93357f4a7d083cf399d4306999e20db31dhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/66e84439ec2af776ce749e8540f8fdd257774152https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ac65f76db9b2ff3fbc9e198c0e9aaf81b111b7d0https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d3cef0e7a5c1aa6217c51faa9ce8ecac35d6e1fdhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ea27703eb0efbadcd45b9949526160ed90536a72https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00007.html