5.5

CVE-2025-38408

genirq/irq_sim: Initialize work context pointers properly

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.
Daten sind bereitgestellt durch National Vulnerability Database (NVD)
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 5.8 < 6.12.37
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 6.13 < 6.15.6
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version6.16 Updaterc1
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version6.16 Updaterc2
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EPSS Metriken
Typ Quelle Score Percentile
EPSS FIRST.org 0.04% 0.111
CVSS Metriken
Quelle Base Score Exploit Score Impact Score Vector String
nvd@nist.gov 5.5 1.8 3.6
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference

The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.