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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-38031" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-06-18T09:33:18.882Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-23T15:58:51.926Z" 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-2025-38031" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38031.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38031" title: "padata: do not leak refcount in reorder_work" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\npadata: do not leak refcount in reorder_work\n\nA recent patch that addressed a UAF introduced a reference count leak:\nthe parallel_data refcount is incremented unconditionally, regardless\nof the return value of queue_work(). If the work item is already queued,\nthe incremented refcount is never decremented.\n\nFix this by checking the return value of queue_work() and decrementing\nthe refcount when necessary.\n\nResolves:\n\nUnreferenced object 0xffff9d9f421e3d80 (size 192):\n comm \"cryptomgr_probe\", pid 157, jiffies 4294694003\n hex dump (first 32 bytes):\n 80 8b cf 41 9f 9d ff ff b8 97 e0 89 ff ff ff ff ...A............\n d0 97 e0 89 ff ff ff ff 19 00 00 00 1f 88 23 00 ..............#.\n backtrace (crc 838fb36):\n __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x284/0x320\n padata_alloc_pd+0x20/0x1e0\n padata_alloc_shell+0x3b/0xa0\n 0xffffffffc040a54d\n cryptomgr_probe+0x43/0xc0\n kthread+0xf6/0x1f0\n ret_from_fork+0x2f/0x50\n ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"f4f1b1169fc3694f9bc3e28c6c68dbbf4cc744c0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b9ad8e50e8589607e68e6c4cefa7f72bf35a2cb1"},{"version":"4c6209efea2208597dbd3e52dc87a0d1a8f2dbe1","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1a426abdf1c86882c9203dd8182f3b8274b89938"},{"version":"7000507bb0d2ceb545c0a690e0c707c897d102c2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"cceb15864e1612ebfbc10ec4e4dcd19a10c0056c"},{"version":"6f45ef616775b0ce7889b0f6077fc8d681ab30bc","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"584a729615fa92f4de45480efb7e569d14be1516"},{"version":"8ca38d0ca8c3d30dd18d311f1a7ec5cb56972cac","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5300e487487d7a2e3e1e6e9d8f03ed9452e4019e"},{"version":"dd7d37ccf6b11f3d95e797ebe4e9e886d0332600","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1c65ae4988714716101555fe2b9830e33136d6fb"},{"version":"dd7d37ccf6b11f3d95e797ebe4e9e886d0332600","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d6ebcde6d4ecf34f8495fb30516645db3aea8993"},{"version":"a54091c24220a4cd847d5b4f36d678edacddbaf0","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"5.10.235","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.10.238"},{"version":"5.15.179","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.15.185"},{"version":"6.1.129","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.1.141"},{"version":"6.6.76","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.6.93"},{"version":"6.12.13","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.12.31"},{"version":"6.13.2","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.14"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.14","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.14"},{"version":"5.10.238","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.185","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.141","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.93","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.31","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.14.9","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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