Security Advisory

CVE-2025-38460

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2025-07-25 15:27:38
Last updated 2026-05-11 21:28:26
Assigner Linux
State PUBLISHED

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: atm: clip: Fix potential null-ptr-deref in to_atmarpd(). atmarpd is protected by RTNL since commit f3a0592b37b8 ("[ATM]: clip causes unregister hang"). However, it is not enough because to_atmarpd() is called without RTNL, especially clip_neigh_solicit() / neigh_ops->solicit() is unsleepable. Also, there is no RTNL dependency around atmarpd. Lets use a private mutex and RCU to protect access to atmarpd in to_atmarpd().