CVE-2025-38408high

CVE-2025-38408: high-severity vulnerability in Linux

genirq/irq_sim: Initialize work context pointers properly

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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: 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.
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/186df821de0f34490ed5fc0861243748b2483861https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/19bd7597858dd15802c1d99fcc38e528f469080ahttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7f73d1def72532bac4d55ea8838f457a6bed955chttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8a2277a3c9e4cc5398f80821afe7ecbe9bdf2819https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c71aa4bb528ae6f8fd7577a0a39e5a03c60b04fbhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ec3656a8cb428d763def32bc2fa695f94be23629