CVE Catalog

CVE-2025-38514

HighCVSS 7.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.35%

28th percentile - higher than 28% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the AF_RXRPC subsystem of the Linux kernel, when a service socket is opened and bound but no preallocation of calls has been done, the rxrpc_backlog struct is not allocated. Calling rxrpc_alloc_incoming_call() then causes an oops.

Risk Assessment

A kernel crash (oops) may occur when handling an incoming call on a not fully initialized AF_RXRPC socket.

Recommendation

Apply the patch that checks for the existence of the rxrpc_backlog struct and returns NULL if absent, aborting the call instead of crashing.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: rxrpc: Fix oops due to non-existence of prealloc backlog struct If an AF_RXRPC service socket is opened and bound, but calls are preallocated, then rxrpc_alloc_incoming_call() will oops because the rxrpc_backlog struct doesn't get allocated until the first preallocation is made. Fix this by returning NULL from rxrpc_alloc_incoming_call() if there is no backlog struct. This will cause the incoming call to be aborted.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS