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CVE-2025-38542

net: appletalk: Fix device refcount leak in atrtr_create() PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

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 (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected c7f905f0f6d49ed8c1aa4566c31f0383a0ba0c9d before b92bedf71f25303e203a4e657489d76691a58119; affected c7f905f0f6d49ed8c1aa4566c31f0383a0ba0c9d before a7852b01793669248dce0348d14df89e77a32afd; affected c7f905f0f6d49ed8c1aa4566c31f0383a0ba0c9d before b2f5dfa87367fdce9f8b995bc6c38f64f9ea2c90; affected c7f905f0f6d49ed8c1aa4566c31f0383a0ba0c9d before d2e9f50f0bdad73b64a871f25186b899624518c4; affected c7f905f0f6d49ed8c1aa4566c31f0383a0ba0c9d before 4a17370da6e476d3d275534e9e9cd2d02c57ca46; affected c7f905f0f6d49ed8c1aa4566c31f0383a0ba0c9d before 473f3eadfc73b0fb6d8dee5829d19a5772e387f7; affected c7f905f0f6d49ed8c1aa4566c31f0383a0ba0c9d before 64124cf0aab0dd1e18c0fb5ae66e45741e727f8b; affected c7f905f0f6d49ed8c1aa4566c31f0383a0ba0c9d before 711c80f7d8b163d3ecd463cd96f07230f488e750
Linux / Linuxaffected 2.6.12; unaffected 0 before 2.6.12; unaffected 5.4.296 through 5.4.*; unaffected 5.10.240 through 5.10.*; unaffected 5.15.189 through 5.15.*; unaffected 6.1.146 through 6.1.*; unaffected 6.6.99 through 6.6.*; unaffected 6.12.39 through 6.12.*; unaffected 6.15.7 through 6.15.*; unaffected 6.16 through *

CWE

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References

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CVE

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