# 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-2025-38273"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-07-10T07:41:54.415Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T12:00:54.344Z"
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-2025-38273"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38273.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38273"
title: "net: tipc: fix refcount warning in tipc_aead_encrypt"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: tipc: fix refcount warning in tipc_aead_encrypt\n\nsyzbot reported a refcount warning [1] caused by calling get_net() on\na network namespace that is being destroyed (refcount=0). This happens\nwhen a TIPC discovery timer fires during network namespace cleanup.\n\nThe recently added get_net() call in commit e279024617134 (\"net/tipc:\nfix slab-use-after-free Read in tipc_aead_encrypt_done\") attempts to\nhold a reference to the network namespace. However, if the namespace\nis already being destroyed, its refcount might be zero, leading to the\nuse-after-free warning.\n\nReplace get_net() with maybe_get_net(), which safely checks if the\nrefcount is non-zero before incrementing it. If the namespace is being\ndestroyed, return -ENODEV early, after releasing the bearer reference.\n\n[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/68342b55.a70a0220.253bc2.0091.GAE@google.com/T/#m12019cf9ae77e1954f666914640efa36d52704a2"
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