vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2025-38542: linux, linux-6.1 -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Aug 18, 2025
Added
Aug 18, 2025
Modified
Oct 24, 2025

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: appletalk: Fix device refcount leak in atrtr_create()

When updating an existing route entry in atrtr_create(), the old device
reference was not being released before assigning the new device,
leading to a device refcount leak. Fix this by calling dev_put() to
release the old device reference before holding the new one.

Solutions

debian-upgrade-linuxdebian-upgrade-linux-6-1
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