CVE-2025-38079 Information

Description

In the Linux kernel the following vulnerability has been resolved:

crypto: algif_hash - fix double free in hash_accept

If accept(2) is called on socket type algif_hash with MSG_MORE flag set and crypto_ahash_import fails sk2 is freed. However it is also freed in af_alg_release leading to slab-use-after-free error.

Reference

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0346f4b742345d1c733c977f3a7aef5a6419a967 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/134daaba93193df9e988524b5cd2f52d15eb1993 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2f45a8d64fb4ed4830a4b3273834ecd6ca504896 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5bff312b59b3f2a54ff504e4f4e47272b64f3633 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b2df03ed4052e97126267e8c13ad4204ea6ba9b6 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bf7bba75b91539e93615f560893a599c1e1c98bf https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c3059d58f79fdfb2201249c2741514e34562b547 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f0f3d09f53534ea385d55ced408f2b67059b16e4

CNNVD-202506-2214 (Published: 2025-06-18)

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