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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD7.8 High

CVE-2025-38542

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

Description

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

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

Linux Linux

Default version status: unaffected

  • c7f905f0f6d49ed8c1aa4566c31f0383a0ba0c9d to < b92bedf71f25303e203a4e657489d76691a58119affected
  • c7f905f0f6d49ed8c1aa4566c31f0383a0ba0c9d to < a7852b01793669248dce0348d14df89e77a32afdaffected
  • c7f905f0f6d49ed8c1aa4566c31f0383a0ba0c9d to < b2f5dfa87367fdce9f8b995bc6c38f64f9ea2c90affected
  • c7f905f0f6d49ed8c1aa4566c31f0383a0ba0c9d to < d2e9f50f0bdad73b64a871f25186b899624518c4affected
  • c7f905f0f6d49ed8c1aa4566c31f0383a0ba0c9d to < 4a17370da6e476d3d275534e9e9cd2d02c57ca46affected
  • c7f905f0f6d49ed8c1aa4566c31f0383a0ba0c9d to < 473f3eadfc73b0fb6d8dee5829d19a5772e387f7affected
  • c7f905f0f6d49ed8c1aa4566c31f0383a0ba0c9d to < 64124cf0aab0dd1e18c0fb5ae66e45741e727f8baffected
  • c7f905f0f6d49ed8c1aa4566c31f0383a0ba0c9d to < 711c80f7d8b163d3ecd463cd96f07230f488e750affected

Linux Linux

Default version status: affected

  • 2.6.12affected
  • 0 to < 2.6.12unaffected
  • 5.4.296 to ≤ 5.4.*unaffected
  • 5.10.240 to ≤ 5.10.*unaffected
  • 5.15.189 to ≤ 5.15.*unaffected
  • 6.1.146 to ≤ 6.1.*unaffected
  • 6.6.99 to ≤ 6.6.*unaffected
  • 6.12.39 to ≤ 6.12.*unaffected
  • 6.15.7 to ≤ 6.15.*unaffected
  • 6.16 to ≤ *unaffected

References