CVE-2025-38456

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ipmi:msghandler: Fix potential memory corruption in ipmi_create_user()

The "intf" list iterator is an invalid pointer if the correct "intf->intf_num" is not found. Calling atomic_dec(&intf->nr_users) on and invalid pointer will lead to memory corruption.

We don't really need to call atomic_dec() if we haven't called atomic_add_return() so update the if (intf->in_shutdown) path as well.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
LinuxLinux8e76741c3d8b20dfa2d6c30fa10ff927cfd93d82 < cbc1670297f675854e982d23c8583900ff0cc67aaffected
LinuxLinux8e76741c3d8b20dfa2d6c30fa10ff927cfd93d82 < e2d5c005dfc96fe857676d1d8ac46b29275cb89baffected
LinuxLinux8e76741c3d8b20dfa2d6c30fa10ff927cfd93d82 < 9e0d33e75c1604c3fad5586ad4dfa3b2695a3950affected
LinuxLinux8e76741c3d8b20dfa2d6c30fa10ff927cfd93d82 < 7c1a6ddb99858e7d68961f74ae27caeeeca67b6aaffected
LinuxLinux8e76741c3d8b20dfa2d6c30fa10ff927cfd93d82 < fa332f5dc6fc662ad7d3200048772c96b861cf6baffected
LinuxLinux5.19affected
LinuxLinux0 < 5.19unaffected
LinuxLinux6.1.146 <= 6.1.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.6.99 <= 6.6.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.12.39 <= 6.12.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.15.7 <= 6.15.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.16 <= *unaffected

Weaknesses

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