CVE-2025-38408 (GCVE-0-2025-38408)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-07-25 13:20 – Updated: 2026-05-11 21:27
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Title
genirq/irq_sim: Initialize work context pointers properly
Summary
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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Linux Linux Affected: 337cbeb2c13eb4cab84f576fd402d7ae4ed31ae1 , < 186df821de0f34490ed5fc0861243748b2483861 (git)
Affected: 337cbeb2c13eb4cab84f576fd402d7ae4ed31ae1 , < c71aa4bb528ae6f8fd7577a0a39e5a03c60b04fb (git)
Affected: 337cbeb2c13eb4cab84f576fd402d7ae4ed31ae1 , < ec3656a8cb428d763def32bc2fa695f94be23629 (git)
Affected: 337cbeb2c13eb4cab84f576fd402d7ae4ed31ae1 , < 19bd7597858dd15802c1d99fcc38e528f469080a (git)
Affected: 337cbeb2c13eb4cab84f576fd402d7ae4ed31ae1 , < 7f73d1def72532bac4d55ea8838f457a6bed955c (git)
Affected: 337cbeb2c13eb4cab84f576fd402d7ae4ed31ae1 , < 8a2277a3c9e4cc5398f80821afe7ecbe9bdf2819 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.8
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.8 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.199 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.162 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.120 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.37 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.15.6 , ≤ 6.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.16 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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