CVE-2025-38542 — net: appletalk: Fix device refcount leak in atrtr_create()
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: appletalk: Fix device refcount leak in atrtr_create() When updating an existing route entry in atrtr_c…
Published: 2025-08-16 · CVSS: 7.8 · CVSS 3.1
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: appletalk: Fix device refcount leak in atrtr_create() When updating an existing route entry in atrtr_create(), the old device reference was not being released before assigning the new device, leading to a device refcount leak. Fix this by calling dev_put() to release the old device reference before holding the new one.
Source: CVE Program · Revision 8b16575c39f1e1810c5e863010da073d2d3285e7