{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 2 products.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-38500 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2025-38500 is a high-severity use after free vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 12 Aug 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2025-38500 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2025-38500 is a high-severity use after free vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 12 Aug 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-38500 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Debian Debian Linux. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-38500/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-38500/index.md)","id":"CVE-2025-38500","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-38500/index.md","name":"CVE-2025-38500","record":{"aliases":["A-436201996","ASB-A-436201996","AZL-66246","BELL-CVE-2025-38500","DEBIAN-CVE-2025-38500","GHSA-7qhg-wpc6-3ff5","ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-12-CVE-2025-38500","ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2404-CVE-2025-38500","UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38500"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"A use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel xfrm interface allows local attackers to cause a system crash via double free during namespace cleanup.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"use_after_free"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[{"product":"debian_linux","vendor":"debian"},{"product":"linux_kernel","vendor":"linux"}],"cvss":{"score":7.8,"severity":"high","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-416","name":"Use After Free"}],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nxfrm: interface: fix use-after-free after changing collect_md xfrm interface\n\ncollect_md property on xfrm interfaces can only be set on device creation,\nthus xfrmi_changelink() should fail when called on such interfaces.\n\nThe check to enforce this was done only in the case where the xi was\nreturned from xfrmi_locate() which doesn't look for the collect_md\ninterface, and thus the validation was never reached.\n\nCalling changelink would thus errornously place the special interface xi\nin the xfrmi_net-\u003exfrmi hash, but since it also exists in the\nxfrmi_net-\u003ecollect_md_xfrmi pointer it would lead to a double free when\nthe net namespace was taken down [1].\n\nChange the check to use the xi from netdev_priv which is available earlier\nin the function to prevent changes in xfrm collect_md interfaces.\n\n[1] resulting oops:\n[    8.516540] kernel BUG at net/core/dev.c:12029!\n[    8.516552] Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI\n[    8.516559] CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 12 Comm: kworker/u80:0 Not tainted 6.15.0-virtme #5 PREEMPT(voluntary)\n[    8.516565] Hardware name: QEMU Ubuntu 24.04 PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014\n[    8.516569] Workqueue: netns cleanup_net\n[    8.516579] RIP: 0010:unregister_netdevice_many_notify+0x101/0xab0\n[    8.516590] Code: 90 0f 0b 90 48 8b b0 78 01 00 00 48 8b 90 80 01 00 00 48 89 56 08 48 89 32 4c 89 80 78 01 00 00 48 89 b8 80 01 00 00 eb ac 90 \u003c0f\u003e 0b 48 8b 45 00 4c 8d a0 88 fe ff ff 48 39 c5 74 5c 41 80 bc 24\n[    8.516593] RSP: 0018:ffffa93b8006bd30 EFLAGS: 00010206\n[    8.516598] RAX: ffff98fe4226e000 RBX: ffffa93b8006bd58 RCX: ffffa93b8006bc60\n[    8.516601] RDX: 0000000000000004 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: dead000000000122\n[    8.516603] RBP: ffffa93b8006bdd8 R08: dead000000000100 R09: ffff98fe4133c100\n[    8.516605] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 00000000000003d2 R12: ffffa93b8006be00\n[    8.516608] R13: ffffffff96c1a510 R14: ffffffff96c1a510 R15: ffffa93b8006be00\n[    8.516615] FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff98fee73b7000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000\n[    8.516619] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\n[    8.516622] CR2: 00007fcd2abd0700 CR3: 000000003aa40000 CR4: 0000000000752ef0\n[    8.516625] PKRU: 55555554\n[    8.516627] Call Trace:\n[    8.516632]  \u003cTASK\u003e\n[    8.516635]  ? rtnl_is_locked+0x15/0x20\n[    8.516641]  ? unregister_netdevice_queue+0x29/0xf0\n[    8.516650]  ops_undo_list+0x1f2/0x220\n[    8.516659]  cleanup_net+0x1ad/0x2e0\n[    8.516664]  process_one_work+0x160/0x380\n[    8.516673]  worker_thread+0x2aa/0x3c0\n[    8.516679]  ? __pfx_worker_thread+0x10/0x10\n[    8.516686]  kthread+0xfb/0x200\n[    8.516690]  ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10\n[    8.516693]  ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10\n[    8.516697]  ret_from_fork+0x82/0xf0\n[    8.516705]  ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10\n[    8.516709]  ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30\n[    8.516718]  \u003c/TASK\u003e","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"xfrm: interface: fix use-after-free after changing collect_md xfrm interface","id":"CVE-2025-38500","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"debian:debian_linux","products":["debian:debian_linux","linux:linux_kernel"],"type":"use_after_free","year":"2025"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":5,"next":{"headline":"ksmbd: limit repeated connections from clients with the same IP","id":"CVE-2025-38501"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"clone_private_mnt(): make sure that caller has CAP_SYS_ADMIN in the right userns","id":"CVE-2025-38499"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2025-08-12","related":[{"cvss_score":10,"headline":"ProFTPD Improper Access Control","id":"CVE-2015-3306","kev_date_added":"2026-10-08","published":"2015-05-18"},{"cvss_score":9.9,"headline":"RoundCube Webmail Deserialization of Untrusted Data","id":"CVE-2025-49113","kev_date_added":"2026-02-20","published":"2025-06-02"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"GNU InetUtils Argument Injection","id":"CVE-2026-24061","kev_date_added":"2026-01-26","published":"2026-01-21"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions","id":"CVE-2025-39682","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2025-09-05"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Mozilla Firefox Use-After-Free","id":"CVE-2024-9680","kev_date_added":"2024-10-15","published":"2024-10-09"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"RARLAB UnRAR Directory Traversal","id":"CVE-2022-30333","kev_date_added":"2022-08-09","published":"2022-05-09"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Roundcube Webmail SQL Injection","id":"CVE-2021-44026","kev_date_added":"2023-06-22","published":"2021-11-19"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"total"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-08-05","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel xfrm interface allows local attackers to cause a system crash via double free during namespace cleanup.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-38500/"}