# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-38079"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-06-18T09:33:53.251Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T01:06:29.165Z"
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-2025-38079"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38079.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38079"
title: "crypto: algif_hash - fix double free in hash_accept"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ncrypto: algif_hash - fix double free in hash_accept\n\nIf accept(2) is called on socket type algif_hash with\nMSG_MORE flag set and crypto_ahash_import fails,\nsk2 is freed. However, it is also freed in af_alg_release,\nleading to slab-use-after-free error."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"fe869cdb89c95d060c77eea20204d6c91f233b53","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5bff312b59b3f2a54ff504e4f4e47272b64f3633"},{"version":"fe869cdb89c95d060c77eea20204d6c91f233b53","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"bf7bba75b91539e93615f560893a599c1e1c98bf"},{"version":"fe869cdb89c95d060c77eea20204d6c91f233b53","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c3059d58f79fdfb2201249c2741514e34562b547"},{"version":"fe869cdb89c95d060c77eea20204d6c91f233b53","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f0f3d09f53534ea385d55ced408f2b67059b16e4"},{"version":"fe869cdb89c95d060c77eea20204d6c91f233b53","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"134daaba93193df9e988524b5cd2f52d15eb1993"},{"version":"fe869cdb89c95d060c77eea20204d6c91f233b53","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2f45a8d64fb4ed4830a4b3273834ecd6ca504896"},{"version":"fe869cdb89c95d060c77eea20204d6c91f233b53","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0346f4b742345d1c733c977f3a7aef5a6419a967"},{"version":"fe869cdb89c95d060c77eea20204d6c91f233b53","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b2df03ed4052e97126267e8c13ad4204ea6ba9b6"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.38","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.38"},{"version":"5.4.294","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.238","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.185","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"}]

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