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CVE-2025-38408
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2025-07-25T14:15:32.440 · Last modified 2026-06-17T09:16:48.090

Summary

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.

Affected products

linux — linux_kernel

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References

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