CVE-2025-38408

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38408
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-38408.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2025-38408
Downstream
Related
Published
2025-07-25T13:20:13.253Z
Modified
2026-03-20T12:42:50.767382Z
Summary
genirq/irq_sim: Initialize work context pointers properly
Details

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

genirq/irq_sim: Initialize work context pointers properly

Initialize ops member's pointers properly by using kzalloc() instead of kmalloc() when allocating the simulation work context. Otherwise the pointers contain random content leading to invalid dereferencing.

Database specific 
{
    "cna_assigner": "Linux",
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/38xxx/CVE-2025-38408.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
337cbeb2c13eb4cab84f576fd402d7ae4ed31ae1
Fixed
186df821de0f34490ed5fc0861243748b2483861
Fixed
c71aa4bb528ae6f8fd7577a0a39e5a03c60b04fb
Fixed
ec3656a8cb428d763def32bc2fa695f94be23629
Fixed
19bd7597858dd15802c1d99fcc38e528f469080a
Fixed
7f73d1def72532bac4d55ea8838f457a6bed955c
Fixed
8a2277a3c9e4cc5398f80821afe7ecbe9bdf2819

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-38408.json"