CVE Catalog

CVE-2025-38408

HighCVSS 7.8
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.17%

6th percentile - higher than 6% of all known CVEs

Summary

In genirq/irq_sim (interrupt simulation), work context pointers initialization has been fixed. Using kmalloc() instead of kzalloc() caused pointers to contain random data, leading to invalid dereferencing.

Risk Assessment

The organization may experience unpredictable system behavior or crashes related to interrupt simulation, potentially affecting stability in test or virtualization environments.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update the Linux kernel to a version containing this fix to ensure proper interrupt simulation operation.

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Original NVD description (English source)

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.

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