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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-38023" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-06-18T09:28:29.991Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:19:49.179Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:34.152Z" snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38023" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38023.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38023" title: "nfs: handle failure of nfs_get_lock_context in unlock path" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnfs: handle failure of nfs_get_lock_context in unlock path\n\nWhen memory is insufficient, the allocation of nfs_lock_context in\nnfs_get_lock_context() fails and returns -ENOMEM. If we mistakenly treat\nan nfs4_unlockdata structure (whose l_ctx member has been set to -ENOMEM)\nas valid and proceed to execute rpc_run_task(), this will trigger a NULL\npointer dereference in nfs4_locku_prepare. For example:\n\nBUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 000000000000000c\nPGD 0 P4D 0\nOops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI\nCPU: 15 UID: 0 PID: 12 Comm: kworker/u64:0 Not tainted 6.15.0-rc2-dirty #60\nHardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-2.fc40\nWorkqueue: rpciod rpc_async_schedule\nRIP: 0010:nfs4_locku_prepare+0x35/0xc2\nCode: 89 f2 48 89 fd 48 c7 c7 68 69 ef b5 53 48 8b 8e 90 00 00 00 48 89 f3\nRSP: 0018:ffffbbafc006bdb8 EFLAGS: 00010246\nRAX: 000000000000004b RBX: ffff9b964fc1fa00 RCX: 0000000000000000\nRDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: fffffffffffffff4 RDI: ffff9ba53fddbf40\nRBP: ffff9ba539934000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffffbbafc006bc38\nR10: ffffffffb6b689c8 R11: 0000000000000003 R12: ffff9ba539934030\nR13: 0000000000000001 R14: 0000000004248060 R15: ffffffffb56d1c30\nFS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff9ba5881f0000(0000) knlGS:00000000\nCS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\nCR2: 000000000000000c CR3: 000000093f244000 CR4: 00000000000006f0\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n __rpc_execute+0xbc/0x480\n rpc_async_schedule+0x2f/0x40\n process_one_work+0x232/0x5d0\n worker_thread+0x1da/0x3d0\n ? __pfx_worker_thread+0x10/0x10\n kthread+0x10d/0x240\n ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10\n ret_from_fork+0x34/0x50\n ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10\n ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30\n \u003c/TASK\u003e\nModules linked in:\nCR2: 000000000000000c\n---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---\n\nFree the allocated nfs4_unlockdata when nfs_get_lock_context() fails and\nreturn NULL to terminate subsequent rpc_run_task, preventing NULL pointer\ndereference." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"f30cb757f680f965ba8a2e53cb3588052a01aeb5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"db6f5ee1fc8f54d079d0751292c2fc2d78e3aad1"},{"version":"f30cb757f680f965ba8a2e53cb3588052a01aeb5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4c189fd40a09a03f9a900bedb2d9064f1734d72a"},{"version":"f30cb757f680f965ba8a2e53cb3588052a01aeb5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"72f552e00c50f265896d3c19edc6696aa2910081"},{"version":"f30cb757f680f965ba8a2e53cb3588052a01aeb5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"85fb7f8ca5f8c138579fdfc9b97b3083e6077d40"},{"version":"f30cb757f680f965ba8a2e53cb3588052a01aeb5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a6879a076b98c99c9fe747816fe1c29543442441"},{"version":"f30cb757f680f965ba8a2e53cb3588052a01aeb5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"da824f1271633bcb515ca8084cda3eda4b3ace51"},{"version":"f30cb757f680f965ba8a2e53cb3588052a01aeb5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f601960af04d2ecb007c928ba153d34051acd9c1"},{"version":"f30cb757f680f965ba8a2e53cb3588052a01aeb5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c457dc1ec770a22636b473ce5d35614adfe97636"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.12","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.12"},{"version":"5.4.294","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.238","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.184","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.140","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.92","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.30","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.14.8","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.14.*"},{"version":"6.15","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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