CVE-2025-38377

HIGH

Linux Kernel 2.6.13-6.15.6 - Use-After-Free in rose_rt_device_down

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0005
EPSS Percentile 16.5%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-416
Status published
Products (29)
debian/debian_linux 11.0
linux/Kernel 2.6.12 - 5.4.296linux
linux/Kernel 5.11.0 - 5.15.187linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 6.1.144linux
linux/Kernel 5.5.0 - 5.10.240linux
linux/Kernel 6.13.0 - 6.15.6linux
linux/Kernel 6.2.0 - 6.6.97linux
linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.12.37linux
Linux/Linux < 2.6.12
Linux/Linux 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - 2b952dbb32fef835756f07ff0cd77efbb836dfea
... and 19 more
Published Jul 25, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026