CVE-2025-38408 — genirq/irq_sim: Initialize work context pointers properly
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 us…
Published: 2025-07-25 · CVSS: 7.8 · CVSS 3.1
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.
Source: CVE Program · Revision 8b16575c39f1e1810c5e863010da073d2d3285e7