CVE-2025-38542

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38542
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-38542.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2025-38542
Downstream
Published
2025-08-16T11:22:16.689Z
Modified
2026-03-09T23:55:02.319347Z
Summary
net: appletalk: Fix device refcount leak in atrtr_create()
Details

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

net: appletalk: Fix device refcount leak in atrtr_create()

When updating an existing route entry in atrtrcreate(), the old device reference was not being released before assigning the new device, leading to a device refcount leak. Fix this by calling devput() to release the old device reference before holding the new one.

Database specific 
{
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/38xxx/CVE-2025-38542.json",
    "cna_assigner": "Linux"
}
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
c7f905f0f6d49ed8c1aa4566c31f0383a0ba0c9d
Fixed
b92bedf71f25303e203a4e657489d76691a58119
Fixed
a7852b01793669248dce0348d14df89e77a32afd
Fixed
b2f5dfa87367fdce9f8b995bc6c38f64f9ea2c90
Fixed
d2e9f50f0bdad73b64a871f25186b899624518c4
Fixed
4a17370da6e476d3d275534e9e9cd2d02c57ca46
Fixed
473f3eadfc73b0fb6d8dee5829d19a5772e387f7
Fixed
64124cf0aab0dd1e18c0fb5ae66e45741e727f8b
Fixed
711c80f7d8b163d3ecd463cd96f07230f488e750

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-38542.json"