CVE-2025-38542

Summary

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 Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
LinuxLinuxc7f905f0f6d49ed8c1aa4566c31f0383a0ba0c9d < b92bedf71f25303e203a4e657489d76691a58119affected
LinuxLinuxc7f905f0f6d49ed8c1aa4566c31f0383a0ba0c9d < a7852b01793669248dce0348d14df89e77a32afdaffected
LinuxLinuxc7f905f0f6d49ed8c1aa4566c31f0383a0ba0c9d < b2f5dfa87367fdce9f8b995bc6c38f64f9ea2c90affected
LinuxLinuxc7f905f0f6d49ed8c1aa4566c31f0383a0ba0c9d < d2e9f50f0bdad73b64a871f25186b899624518c4affected
LinuxLinuxc7f905f0f6d49ed8c1aa4566c31f0383a0ba0c9d < 4a17370da6e476d3d275534e9e9cd2d02c57ca46affected
LinuxLinuxc7f905f0f6d49ed8c1aa4566c31f0383a0ba0c9d < 473f3eadfc73b0fb6d8dee5829d19a5772e387f7affected
LinuxLinuxc7f905f0f6d49ed8c1aa4566c31f0383a0ba0c9d < 64124cf0aab0dd1e18c0fb5ae66e45741e727f8baffected
LinuxLinuxc7f905f0f6d49ed8c1aa4566c31f0383a0ba0c9d < 711c80f7d8b163d3ecd463cd96f07230f488e750affected
LinuxLinux2.6.12affected
LinuxLinux0 < 2.6.12unaffected
LinuxLinux5.4.296 <= 5.4.*unaffected
LinuxLinux5.10.240 <= 5.10.*unaffected
LinuxLinux5.15.189 <= 5.15.*unaffected
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

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