CVE-2025-38416

HIGH

Linux Kernel - Use-After-Free in NFC NCI UART Driver

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: NFC: nci: uart: Set tty->disc_data only in success path Setting tty->disc_data before opening the NCI device means we need to clean it up on error paths. This also opens some short window if device starts sending data, even before NCIUARTSETDRIVER IOCTL succeeded (broken hardware?). Close the window by exposing tty->disc_data only on the success path, when opening of the NCI device and try_module_get() succeeds. The code differs in error path in one aspect: tty->disc_data won't be ever assigned thus NULL-ified. This however should not be relevant difference, because of "tty->disc_data=NULL" in nci_uart_tty_open().

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0010
EPSS Percentile 26.5%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

Status published
Products (28)
debian/debian_linux 11.0
linux/Kernel 4.2.0 - 5.4.295linux
linux/Kernel 5.11.0 - 5.15.186linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 6.1.142linux
linux/Kernel 5.5.0 - 5.10.239linux
linux/Kernel 6.13.0 - 6.15.4linux
linux/Kernel 6.2.0 - 6.6.95linux
linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.12.35linux
Linux/Linux < 4.2
Linux/Linux 4.2
... and 18 more
Published Jul 25, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026