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CVE-2025-38408

Published: Jul 25, 2025

Modified: May 11, 2026

PUBLISHED

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.

VendorProductVersions

Linux

Linux

affected
337cbeb2c13eb4cab84f576fd402d7ae4ed31ae1 - < 186df821de0f34490ed5fc0861243748b2483861
affected
337cbeb2c13eb4cab84f576fd402d7ae4ed31ae1 - < c71aa4bb528ae6f8fd7577a0a39e5a03c60b04fb
affected
337cbeb2c13eb4cab84f576fd402d7ae4ed31ae1 - < ec3656a8cb428d763def32bc2fa695f94be23629
affected
337cbeb2c13eb4cab84f576fd402d7ae4ed31ae1 - < 19bd7597858dd15802c1d99fcc38e528f469080a
affected
337cbeb2c13eb4cab84f576fd402d7ae4ed31ae1 - < 7f73d1def72532bac4d55ea8838f457a6bed955c

+1 more versions

Linux

Linux

affected
5.8
unaffected
0 - < 5.8
unaffected
5.15.199 - <= 5.15.*
unaffected
6.1.162 - <= 6.1.*
unaffected
6.6.120 - <= 6.6.*

+3 more versions

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