vulnerability
Red Hat: CVE-2025-38408: kernel: genirq/irq_sim: Initialize work context pointers properly
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | (AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C) | Jul 25, 2025 | Jul 31, 2025 | Jul 31, 2025 |
Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Jul 25, 2025
Added
Jul 31, 2025
Modified
Jul 31, 2025
Description
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.
Solution
no-fix-redhat-rpm-package
References
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