CVE-2025-38180 (GCVE-0-2025-38180)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-07-04 13:37 – Updated: 2026-05-11 21:22
VLAI?
Title
net: atm: fix /proc/net/atm/lec handling
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: atm: fix /proc/net/atm/lec handling /proc/net/atm/lec must ensure safety against dev_lec[] changes. It appears it had dev_put() calls without prior dev_hold(), leading to imbalance and UAF.
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Linux Linux Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < fcfccf56f4eba7d00aa2d33c7bb1b33083237742 (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < f2d1443b18806640abdb530e88009af7be2588e7 (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < ca3829c18c8d0ceb656605d3bff6bb3dfb078589 (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < e612c4b014f5808fbc6beae21f5ccaca5e76a2f8 (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < a5e3a144268899f1a8c445c8a3bfa15873ba85e8 (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 5fe1b23a2f87f43aeeac51e08819cbc6fd808cbc (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 9b9aeb3ada44d8abea1e31e4446113f460848ae4 (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < d03b79f459c7935cff830d98373474f440bd03ae (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 2.6.12
Unaffected: 0 , < 2.6.12 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4.295 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.239 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.186 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.142 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.95 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.35 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.15.4 , ≤ 6.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.16 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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