CVE-2025-38408 (GCVE-0-2025-38408)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-07-25 13:20
Modified
2025-07-28 11:16
Severity ?
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 Version: 337cbeb2c13eb4cab84f576fd402d7ae4ed31ae1
Version: 337cbeb2c13eb4cab84f576fd402d7ae4ed31ae1
Version: 337cbeb2c13eb4cab84f576fd402d7ae4ed31ae1
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