CVE-2025-38456 (GCVE-0-2025-38456)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-07-25 15:27 – Updated: 2026-08-05 12:02
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
ipmi:msghandler: Fix potential memory corruption in ipmi_create_user()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ipmi:msghandler: Fix potential memory corruption in ipmi_create_user()
The "intf" list iterator is an invalid pointer if the correct
"intf->intf_num" is not found. Calling atomic_dec(&intf->nr_users) on
and invalid pointer will lead to memory corruption.
We don't really need to call atomic_dec() if we haven't called
atomic_add_return() so update the if (intf->in_shutdown) path as well.
Severity
7.8 (High)
Assigner
References
6 references
Impacted products
2 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
8e76741c3d8b20dfa2d6c30fa10ff927cfd93d82 , < cbc1670297f675854e982d23c8583900ff0cc67a
(git)
Affected: 8e76741c3d8b20dfa2d6c30fa10ff927cfd93d82 , < e2d5c005dfc96fe857676d1d8ac46b29275cb89b (git) Affected: 8e76741c3d8b20dfa2d6c30fa10ff927cfd93d82 , < 9e0d33e75c1604c3fad5586ad4dfa3b2695a3950 (git) Affected: 8e76741c3d8b20dfa2d6c30fa10ff927cfd93d82 , < 7c1a6ddb99858e7d68961f74ae27caeeeca67b6a (git) Affected: 8e76741c3d8b20dfa2d6c30fa10ff927cfd93d82 , < fa332f5dc6fc662ad7d3200048772c96b861cf6b (git) |
guessed | |
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
5.19
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.19 (semver) Unaffected: 6.1.146 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.6.99 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.12.39 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.15.7 , ≤ 6.15.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.16 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix) |
guessed |
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