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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.

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