CVE-2025-38377

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-38377
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-38377.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2025-38377
Downstream
Related
Published
2025-07-25T12:53:19.141Z
Modified
2025-11-28T02:35:42.724931Z
Summary
rose: fix dangling neighbour pointers in rose_rt_device_down()
Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

rose: fix dangling neighbour pointers in rosertdevice_down()

There are two bugs in rosertdevice_down() that can cause use-after-free:

  1. The loop bound t->count is modified within the loop, which can cause the loop to terminate early and miss some entries.

  2. When removing an entry from the neighbour array, the subsequent entries are moved up to fill the gap, but the loop index i is still incremented, causing the next entry to be skipped.

For example, if a node has three neighbours (A, A, B) with count=3 and A is being removed, the second A is not checked.

i=0: (A, A, B) -> (A, B) with count=2
      ^ checked
i=1: (A, B)    -> (A, B) with count=2
         ^ checked (B, not A!)
i=2: (doesn't occur because i < count is false)

This leaves the second A in the array with count=2, but the rose_neigh structure has been freed. Code that accesses these entries assumes that the first count entries are valid pointers, causing a use-after-free when it accesses the dangling pointer.

Fix both issues by iterating over the array in reverse order with a fixed loop bound. This ensures that all entries are examined and that the removal of an entry doesn't affect subsequent iterations.

Database specific
{
    "cna_assigner": "Linux",
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/38xxx/CVE-2025-38377.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2
Fixed
94e0918e39039c47ddceb609500817f7266be756
Fixed
fe62a35fb1f77f494ed534fc69a9043dc5a30ce1
Fixed
2b952dbb32fef835756f07ff0cd77efbb836dfea
Fixed
b6b232e16e08c6dc120672b4753392df0d28c1b4
Fixed
7a1841c9609377e989ec41c16551309ce79c39e4
Fixed
446ac00b86be1670838e513b643933d78837d8db
Fixed
2c6c82ee074bfcfd1bc978ec45bfea37703d840a
Fixed
34a500caf48c47d5171f4aa1f237da39b07c6157

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
2.6.12
Fixed
5.4.296
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.5.0
Fixed
5.10.240
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.11.0
Fixed
5.15.187
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.16.0
Fixed
6.1.144
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.2.0
Fixed
6.6.97
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.7.0
Fixed
6.12.37
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.13.0
Fixed
6.15.6