CVE-2025-38031 — Linux vulnerability
66 documents7 sources
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
OSV3.2
EPSS
0.1%
top 69.23%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedJun 18
Latest updateMar 25
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
padata: do not leak refcount in reorder_work
A recent patch that addressed a UAF introduced a reference count leak:
the parallel_data refcount is incremented unconditionally, regardless
of the return value of queue_work(). If the work item is already queued,
the incremented refcount is never decremented.
Fix this by checking the return value of queue_work() and decrementing
the refcount when necessary.
Resolves:
Unreference…
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 Packages4 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linuxf4f1b1169fc3694f9bc3e28c6c68dbbf4cc744c0 — b9ad8e50e8589607e68e6c4cefa7f72bf35a2cb1+8
Also affects: Debian Linux 11.0