CVE-2025-38546: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: atm: clip: Fix memory leak of struct clip_vcc. ioctl(ATMARP_MKIP) allocates struct clip_vcc and set it to vcc->user_back. The code assumes that vcc_destroy_socket() passes NULL skb to vcc->push() when the socket is close()d, and then clip_push() frees clip_vcc. However, ioctl(ATMARPD_CTRL) sets NULL to vcc->push() in atm_init_atmarp(), resulting in memory leak. Let's serialise two ioctl() by lock_sock() and check vcc->push() in atm_init_atmarp() to prevent memleak.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 11.0 only
• Linux Linux Kernel: from 2.6.13, before 5.4.296 (fixed in 5.4.296); from 5.5, before 5.10.240 (fixed in 5.10.240); from 5.11, before 5.15.189 (fixed in 5.15.189); from 5.16, before 6.1.146 (fixed in 6.1.146); from 6.2, before 6.6.99 (fixed in 6.6.99); from 6.7, before 6.12.39 (fixed in 6.12.39); …

Published 2025-08-16. Last modified 2026-06-17.