CVE Catalog

CVE-2025-38460

HighCVSS 7.0
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.16%

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

Summary

In the Linux kernel's ATM CLIP subsystem, the function to_atmarpd() is called without RTNL lock, leading to potential NULL-pointer dereference. RTNL protection of atmarpd is insufficient because calls may come from unsleepable contexts.

Risk Assessment

A system crash (oops) may occur due to NULL-pointer dereference during CLIP neighbor handling.

Recommendation

Apply the patch that introduces a private mutex and RCU to protect access to atmarpd in to_atmarpd().

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: atm: clip: Fix potential null-ptr-deref in to_atmarpd(). atmarpd is protected by RTNL since commit f3a0592b37b8 ("[ATM]: clip causes unregister hang"). However, it is not enough because to_atmarpd() is called without RTNL, especially clip_neigh_solicit() / neigh_ops->solicit() is unsleepable. Also, there is no RTNL dependency around atmarpd. Let's use a private mutex and RCU to protect access to atmarpd in to_atmarpd().

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