CVE-2025-38595 — Use After Free in Linux
Severity
7.8HIGHNVD
OSV3.2
EPSS
0.0%
top 95.51%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedAug 19
Latest updateMar 25
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
xen: fix UAF in dmabuf_exp_from_pages()
[dma_buf_fd() fixes; no preferences regarding the tree it goes through -
up to xen folks]
As soon as we'd inserted a file reference into descriptor table, another
thread could close it. That's fine for the case when all we are doing is
returning that descriptor to userland (it's a race, but it's a userland
race and there's nothing the kernel can do about it). However, if we
follow fd_in…
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