Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jul 25, 2025· Updated Feb 6, 2026
genirq/irq_sim: Initialize work context pointers properly
CVE-2025-38408
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 products
2- Linux/Linuxv5Range: 5.8
Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
Vulnerability mechanics
AI mechanics synthesis has not run for this CVE yet.
References
6- git.kernel.org/stable/c/186df821de0f34490ed5fc0861243748b2483861mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/19bd7597858dd15802c1d99fcc38e528f469080amitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/7f73d1def72532bac4d55ea8838f457a6bed955cmitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/8a2277a3c9e4cc5398f80821afe7ecbe9bdf2819mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/c71aa4bb528ae6f8fd7577a0a39e5a03c60b04fbmitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/ec3656a8cb428d763def32bc2fa695f94be23629mitre
News mentions
0No linked articles in our index yet.