Security Advisory

CVE-2025-38542

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2025-08-16 11:22:16
Last updated 2026-05-11 21:30:06
Assigner Linux
State PUBLISHED

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.