CVE-2025-38408 - CVE House
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Status published Unknown CVE-2025-38408

genirq/irq_sim: Initialize work context pointers properly

Vulnerability 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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

Linux
Vulnerable Versions:
337cbeb2c13eb4cab84f576fd402d7ae4ed31ae1, 5.8, 0, 5.15.199, 6.1.162, 6.6.120, 6.12.37, 6.15.6, 6.16

Timeline

Official Publish: July 25th, 2025
Last Modified: May 11th, 2026
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

No vector data available

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

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