CVE-2025-38575

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

Unavailable / Other

Publication date:

18/04/2025

Last modified:

13/02/2026

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ksmbd: use aead_request_free to match aead_request_alloc Use aead_request_free() instead of kfree() to properly free memory allocated by aead_request_alloc(). This ensures sensitive crypto data is zeroed before being freed.

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::::::::	5.15 (including)	5.15.180 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.16 (including)	6.1.134 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	6.2 (including)	6.6.87 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	6.7 (including)	6.12.23 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	6.13 (including)	6.13.11 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	6.14 (including)	6.14.2 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:11.0:::::::*

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CVE-2025-38575

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

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