Security Advisory

CVE-2025-38408

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2025-07-25 13:20:13
Last updated 2026-07-30 05:53:41
Assigner Linux
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

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.