CVE-2025-38052 — Use After Free in Linux

CWE-416 — Use After Free67 documents8 sources
Severity
7.8HIGHNVD
OSV5.5OSV3.2
EPSS
0.1%
top 75.93%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
LinuxLinux KernelDebian Linux
Timeline
PublishedJun 18
Latest updateMar 25

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/tipc: fix slab-use-after-free Read in tipc_aead_encrypt_done Syzbot reported a slab-use-after-free with the following call trace: BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in tipc_aead_encrypt_done+0x4bd/0x510 net/tipc/crypto.c:840 Read of size 8 at addr ffff88807a733000 by task kworker/1:0/25 Call Trace: kasan_report+0xd9/0x110 mm/kasan/report.c:601 tipc_aead_encrypt_done+0x4bd/0x510 net/tipc/crypto.c:840 crypto_request_complete …

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages4 packages

▶NVDlinux/linux_kernel5.5 — 5.10.238+6
▶Debianlinux/linux_kernel< 5.10.244-1+3
▶Ubuntulinux/linux_kernel< 5.15.0-152.162+1
▶CVEListV5linux/linuxfc1b6d6de2208774efd2a20bf0daddb02d18b1e0 — d42ed4de6aba232d946d20653a70f79158a6535b+7

Also affects: Debian Linux 11.0

Patches

Patch: git.kernel.org ↗Patch: git.kernel.org ↗Patch: git.kernel.org ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

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OSV
linux-azure-6.8 vulnerabilities↗2026-03-25
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OSV
linux-azure-fips vulnerabilities↗2026-03-04
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OSV
linux-azure vulnerabilities↗2026-03-04
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OSV
linux-ibm, linux-ibm-6.8 vulnerabilities↗2026-02-24
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OSV
linux-xilinx vulnerabilities↗2026-02-24
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📋Vendor Advisories

32
Ubuntu
Linux kernel (Azure) vulnerabilities↗2026-03-25
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Ubuntu
Linux kernel (Azure) vulnerabilities↗2026-03-04
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Ubuntu
Linux kernel (Azure FIPS) vulnerabilities↗2026-03-04
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Ubuntu
Linux kernel (Xilinx) vulnerabilities↗2026-02-24
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Ubuntu
Linux kernel (IBM) vulnerabilities↗2026-02-24
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