CVE-2025-38542 Information

Aug 17, 2025 cve

Description

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.

Reference

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/473f3eadfc73b0fb6d8dee5829d19a5772e387f7 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4a17370da6e476d3d275534e9e9cd2d02c57ca46 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/64124cf0aab0dd1e18c0fb5ae66e45741e727f8b https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/711c80f7d8b163d3ecd463cd96f07230f488e750 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a7852b01793669248dce0348d14df89e77a32afd https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b2f5dfa87367fdce9f8b995bc6c38f64f9ea2c90 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b92bedf71f25303e203a4e657489d76691a58119 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d2e9f50f0bdad73b64a871f25186b899624518c4

CNNVD-202508-1961 (Published: 2025-08-16)

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