CVE-2025-38387
CVE-2025-38387CVE-2025-38387
linux / linux_kernel
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
RDMA/mlx5: Initialize obj_event->obj_sub_list before xa_insert
The obj_event may be loaded immediately after inserted, then if the
list_head is not initialized then we may get a poisonous pointer. This
fixes the crash below:
mlx5_core 0000:03:00.0: MLX5E: StrdRq(1) RqSz(8) StrdSz(2048) RxCqeCmprss(0 enhanced)
mlx5_core.sf mlx5_core.sf.4: firmware version: 32.38.3056
mlx5_core 0000:03:00.0 en3f0pf0sf2002: renamed from eth0
mlx5_core.sf mlx5_core.sf.4: Rate limit: 127 rates are supported, range: 0Mbps to 195312Mbps
IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): en3f0pf0sf2002: link becomes ready
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000060
Mem abort info:
ESR = 0x96000006
EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
SET = 0, FnV = 0
EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
Data abort info:
ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000006
CM = 0, WnR = 0
user pgtable: 4k pages, 48-bit VAs, pgdp=00000007760fb000
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Scoring
| CVSS | 5.5 () |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| Last modified | 2026-11-05 |