CVE-2025-23138 — Integer Underflow (Wrap or Wraparound) in Linux
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
OSV8.8OSV7.1OSV5.9OSV4.4
EPSS
0.1%
top 69.28%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedApr 16
Latest updateJan 9
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
watch_queue: fix pipe accounting mismatch
Currently, watch_queue_set_size() modifies the pipe buffers charged to
user->pipe_bufs without updating the pipe->nr_accounted on the pipe
itself, due to the if (!pipe_has_watch_queue()) test in
pipe_resize_ring(). This means that when the pipe is ultimately freed,
we decrement user->pipe_bufs by something other than what than we had
charged to it, potentially leading to an underflow. …
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 3.6
Affected Packages6 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linux162ae0e78bdabf84ef10c1293c4ed7865cb7d3c8 — 8658c75343ed00e5e154ebbe24335f51ba8db547+9
Also affects: Debian Linux 11.0