Bug 2383483 (CVE-2025-38456) - CVE-2025-38456 kernel: ipmi:msghandler: Fix potential memory corruption in ipmi_create_user()
Summary: CVE-2025-38456 kernel: ipmi:msghandler: Fix potential memory corruption in ip...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2025-38456
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-07-25 16:01 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-07-25 17:30 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-07-25 16:01:44 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ipmi:msghandler: Fix potential memory corruption in ipmi_create_user()

The "intf" list iterator is an invalid pointer if the correct
"intf->intf_num" is not found.  Calling atomic_dec(&intf->nr_users) on
and invalid pointer will lead to memory corruption.

We don't really need to call atomic_dec() if we haven't called
atomic_add_return() so update the if (intf->in_shutdown) path as well.


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