CVE-2025-38542

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

Unavailable / Other

Publication date:

16/08/2025

Last modified:

07/01/2026

Description

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 atrtr_create(), the old device reference was not being released before assigning the new device, leading to a device refcount leak. Fix this by calling dev_put() to release the old device reference before holding the new one.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.50 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): Low
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x

5.50

Severity 3.x

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	2.6.13 (including)	5.4.296 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.5 (including)	5.10.240 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.11 (including)	5.15.189 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.16 (including)	6.1.146 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	6.2 (including)	6.6.99 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	6.7 (including)	6.12.39 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	6.13 (including)	6.15.7 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.12:-::::::
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.12:rc3::::::
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.12:rc4::::::
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.12:rc5::::::
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.16:rc1::::::
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.16:rc2::::::
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.16:rc3::::::
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.16:rc4::::::

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CVE-2025-38542

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

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