CVE-2025-38062 — Expired Pointer Dereference in Linux
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
OSV3.2
EPSS
0.1%
top 72.09%
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:
genirq/msi: Store the IOMMU IOVA directly in msi_desc instead of iommu_cookie
The IOMMU translation for MSI message addresses has been a 2-step process,
separated in time:
1) iommu_dma_prepare_msi(): A cookie pointer containing the IOVA address
is stored in the MSI descriptor when an MSI interrupt is allocated.
2) iommu_dma_compose_msi_msg(): this cookie pointer is used to compute a
translated message address.
This has an i…
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/linuxece6e6f0218b7777e650bf93728130ae6f4feb7d — e4d3763223c7b72ded53425207075e7453b4e3d5+5
Also affects: Debian Linux 11.0