CVE-2025-38250 — Use After Free in Linux
Severity
7.8HIGHNVD
OSV5.6OSV3.2
EPSS
0.0%
top 93.65%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedJul 9
Latest updateMar 25
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
Bluetooth: hci_core: Fix use-after-free in vhci_flush()
syzbot reported use-after-free in vhci_flush() without repro. [0]
From the splat, a thread close()d a vhci file descriptor while
its device was being used by iotcl() on another thread.
Once the last fd refcnt is released, vhci_release() calls
hci_unregister_dev(), hci_free_dev(), and kfree() for struct
vhci_data, which is set to hci_dev->dev->driver_data.
The problem i…
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