Bug 2383402 (CVE-2025-38408) - CVE-2025-38408 kernel: Linux kernel: Denial of Service via improper pointer initialization
Summary: CVE-2025-38408 kernel: Linux kernel: Denial of Service via improper pointer i...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2025-38408
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Reported: 2025-07-25 14:02 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-06-29 18:25 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-07-25 14:02:43 UTC
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.

Comment 1 Jon Moroney 2025-07-25 19:19:43 UTC Comment hidden (spam)

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