CVE-2025-38542

net: appletalk: Fix device refcount leak in atrtr_create()

published August 16, 2025

CVSS
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EPSS
0%
Percentile
7.1
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00179 · 7.1th percentile
Published
2025-08-16T11:22Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 16 AUG 11:22Z
    net: appletalk: Fix device refcount leak in atrtr_create()
    cvelistv5