CVE-2025-38118 — Use After Free in Linux

CWE-416 — Use After FreeCWE-825 — Expired Pointer Dereference38 documents8 sources
Severity
7.8HIGHNVD
OSV7.1
EPSS
0.0%
top 92.81%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
LinuxLinux KernelDebian Linux
Timeline
PublishedJul 3
Latest updateJan 9

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Bluetooth: MGMT: Fix UAF on mgmt_remove_adv_monitor_complete This reworks MGMT_OP_REMOVE_ADV_MONITOR to not use mgmt_pending_add to avoid crashes like bellow: BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in mgmt_remove_adv_monitor_complete+0xe5/0x540 net/bluetooth/mgmt.c:5406 Read of size 8 at addr ffff88801c53f318 by task kworker/u5:5/5341 CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 5341 Comm: kworker/u5:5 Not tainted 6.15.0-syzkaller-10402-g4cb6c8af8591 #0 PRE…

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_kernel5.12 — 6.1.142+4
▶Debianlinux/linux_kernel< 6.1.147-1+2
▶Ubuntulinux/linux_kernel< 6.8.0-87.88
▶CVEListV5linux/linux66bd095ab5d408af106808cce302406542f70f65 — 3c9aba9cbdf163e2654be9f82d43ff8a04273962+5

Also affects: Debian Linux 11.0

Patches

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

🔴Vulnerability Details

19
OSV
linux-azure-nvidia vulnerabilities↗2026-01-09
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OSV
linux-azure-fips vulnerabilities↗2025-12-17
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OSV
linux-azure, linux-azure-6.8 vulnerabilities↗2025-12-15
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OSV
linux-raspi, linux-raspi-realtime, linux-xilinx vulnerabilities↗2025-12-03
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OSV
linux, linux-aws, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-6.14, linux-oracle, linux-realtime vulnerabilities↗2025-12-03
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📋Vendor Advisories

18
Ubuntu
Linux kernel (Azure, N-Series) vulnerabilities↗2026-01-09
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Ubuntu
Linux kernel (Azure FIPS) vulnerabilities↗2025-12-17
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Ubuntu
Linux kernel (Azure) vulnerabilities↗2025-12-15
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Ubuntu
Linux kernel (AWS) vulnerabilities↗2025-11-19
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Ubuntu
Linux kernel vulnerabilities↗2025-11-13
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