CVE-2025-38377

High

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: rose: fix dangling neighbour pointers in rose_rt_device_down() There are two bugs in rose_rt_device_down() that can cause use-after-free: 1. The loop bound `t->count` is modified within the loop, which can cause the loop to terminate early and miss some entries. 2. When removing an entry from the neighbour array, the subsequent entries are moved up to fill the gap, but the loop index `i` is still incremented, causing the next entry to be skipped. For example, if a node has three neighbours (A, A, B) with count=3 and A is being removed, the second A is not checked. i=0: (A, A, B) -> (A, B) with count=2 ^ checked i=1: (A, B) -> (A, B) with count=2 ^ checked (B, not A!) i=2: (doesn't occur because i < count is false) This leaves the second A in the array with count=2, but the rose_neigh structure has been freed. Code that accesses these entries assumes that the first `count` entries are valid pointers, causing a use-after-free when it accesses the dangling pointer. Fix both issues by iterating over the array in reverse order with a fixed loop bound. This ensures that all entries are examined and that the removal of an entry doesn't affect subsequent iterations.

SeverityHigh
CVSS8.8
Exploit probability—
ProductLinux Kernel
PublishedJul 25, 2025
First seenJul 25, 2025

How to fix

Update
  • linux linux_kernel5.4.296, 5.10.240, 5.15.187, 6.1.144, 6.6.97, 6.12.37, 6.15.6 or later

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
linux linux_kernel2.6.13 ≤ v < 5.4.296, 5.5 ≤ v < 5.10.240, 5.11 ≤ v < 5.15.187, 5.16 ≤ v < 6.1.144, 6.2 ≤ v < 6.6.97, 6.7 ≤ v < 6.12.37, 6.13 ≤ v < 6.15.6, 2.6.12, 6.165.4.296, 5.10.240, 5.15.187, 6.1.144, 6.6.97, 6.12.37, 6.15.6
debian debian_linux11.0—

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