CVE-2025-38411

HIGH

Linux Kernel 6.15.3-6.15.6 - Use-After-Free in netfs Request Handling

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfs: Fix double put of request If a netfs request finishes during the pause loop, it will have the ref that belongs to the IN_PROGRESS flag removed at that point - however, if it then goes to the final wait loop, that will *also* put the ref because it sees that the IN_PROGRESS flag is clear and incorrectly assumes that this happened when it called the collector. In fact, since IN_PROGRESS is clear, we shouldn't call the collector again since it's done all the cleanup, such as calling ->ki_complete(). Fix this by making netfs_collect_in_app() just return, indicating that we're done if IN_PROGRESS is removed.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0014
EPSS Percentile 3.9%
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-415
Status published
Products (6)
linux/Kernel 6.15.3 - 6.15.6linux
Linux/Linux 2b1424cd131cfaba4cf7040473133d26cddac088 - 9df7b5ebead649b00bf9a53a798e4bf83a1318fd
Linux/Linux 329ba1cb402ac328224965b8fc7a554a5150908e - d18facba5a5795ad44b2a00a052e3db2fa77ab12
Linux/Linux 6.15.3 - 6.15.6
linux/linux_kernel 6.16 rc1 (4 CPE variants)
linux/linux_kernel 6.15.3 - 6.15.6
Published Jul 25, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026