Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 6.1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: genirq/irqsim: Proper initialization of work context pointers Proper initialization of the pointers to the ops member by using kzalloc instead of kmalloc when allocating the simulation work context. Otherwise, the pointers may...

genirq/irq_sim: Initialize work context pointers properly

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Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-38408

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - genirq/irqsim: Initialize work context pointers properly Initialize ops member's pointers properly by using kzalloc instead of kmalloc when allocating the...

CVE-2025-38408 genirq/irq_sim: Initialize work context pointers properly

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: genirq/irqsim: 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...

CVE-2025-38408

CVE-2025-38408 pertains to the Linux kernel’s genirq/irq_sim component. The issue arises from improper initialization of the simulation work context pointers in the ops structure, where pointers were allocated with kmalloc() and could contain random content, risking invalid dereferencing. The doc...

CVE-2025-38408 genirq/irq_sim: Initialize work context pointers properly

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: genirq/irqsim: 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...