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CVE-2025-38408

HIGH CVSS: 7.8 Published: 2025-07-25 Modified: 2026-07-30

Description

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 Platforms

Linux Linux Kernel

Weakness Type

CWE-476

References