CVE-2025-38076 — Use After Free in Linux
Severity
7.8HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.1%
top 77.10%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedJun 18
Latest updateDec 3
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
alloc_tag: allocate percpu counters for module tags dynamically
When a module gets unloaded it checks whether any of its tags are still in
use and if so, we keep the memory containing module's allocation tags
alive until all tags are unused. However percpu counters referenced by
the tags are freed by free_module(). This will lead to UAF if the memory
allocated by a module is accessed after module was unloaded.
To fix this we …
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 Packages3 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linux0db6f8d7820a4b788565dac8eed52bfc2c3216da — 3cc733e6d96c938d2b82be96858a0ab900eb6fdc+2
Patches
🔴Vulnerability Details
9OSV▶
linux, linux-aws, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-6.14, linux-oracle, linux-realtime vulnerabilities↗2025-12-03