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Tracker / CVE-2025-38542

CVE-2025-38542

High 7.8

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.

Affected products and versions

debian debian_linux
linux linux_kernel
linux linux_kernel · 2.6.13 → 5.4.296
linux linux_kernel · 5.11 → 5.15.189
linux linux_kernel · 5.16 → 6.1.146
linux linux_kernel · 5.5 → 5.10.240
linux linux_kernel · 6.13 → 6.15.7
linux linux_kernel · 6.2 → 6.6.99
linux linux_kernel · 6.7 → 6.12.39

Analysis

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