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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-38323"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-07-10T08:14:58.212Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:25:45.739Z"
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-2025-38323"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38323.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38323"
title: "net: atm: add lec_mutex"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: atm: add lec_mutex\n\nsyzbot found its way in net/atm/lec.c, and found an error path\nin lecd_attach() could leave a dangling pointer in dev_lec[].\n\nAdd a mutex to protect dev_lecp[] uses from lecd_attach(),\nlec_vcc_attach() and lec_mcast_attach().\n\nFollowing patch will use this mutex for /proc/net/atm/lec.\n\nBUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in lecd_attach net/atm/lec.c:751 [inline]\nBUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in lane_ioctl+0x2224/0x23e0 net/atm/lec.c:1008\nRead of size 8 at addr ffff88807c7b8e68 by task syz.1.17/6142\n\nCPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 6142 Comm: syz.1.17 Not tainted 6.16.0-rc1-syzkaller-00239-g08215f5486ec #0 PREEMPT(full)\nHardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 05/07/2025\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n  __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:94 [inline]\n  dump_stack_lvl+0x116/0x1f0 lib/dump_stack.c:120\n  print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:408 [inline]\n  print_report+0xcd/0x680 mm/kasan/report.c:521\n  kasan_report+0xe0/0x110 mm/kasan/report.c:634\n  lecd_attach net/atm/lec.c:751 [inline]\n  lane_ioctl+0x2224/0x23e0 net/atm/lec.c:1008\n  do_vcc_ioctl+0x12c/0x930 net/atm/ioctl.c:159\n  sock_do_ioctl+0x118/0x280 net/socket.c:1190\n  sock_ioctl+0x227/0x6b0 net/socket.c:1311\n  vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]\n  __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:907 [inline]\n  __se_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:893 [inline]\n  __x64_sys_ioctl+0x18e/0x210 fs/ioctl.c:893\n  do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]\n  do_syscall_64+0xcd/0x4c0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f\n \u003c/TASK\u003e\n\nAllocated by task 6132:\n  kasan_save_stack+0x33/0x60 mm/kasan/common.c:47\n  kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30 mm/kasan/common.c:68\n  poison_kmalloc_redzone mm/kasan/common.c:377 [inline]\n  __kasan_kmalloc+0xaa/0xb0 mm/kasan/common.c:394\n  kasan_kmalloc include/linux/kasan.h:260 [inline]\n  __do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:4328 [inline]\n  __kvmalloc_node_noprof+0x27b/0x620 mm/slub.c:5015\n  alloc_netdev_mqs+0xd2/0x1570 net/core/dev.c:11711\n  lecd_attach net/atm/lec.c:737 [inline]\n  lane_ioctl+0x17db/0x23e0 net/atm/lec.c:1008\n  do_vcc_ioctl+0x12c/0x930 net/atm/ioctl.c:159\n  sock_do_ioctl+0x118/0x280 net/socket.c:1190\n  sock_ioctl+0x227/0x6b0 net/socket.c:1311\n  vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]\n  __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:907 [inline]\n  __se_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:893 [inline]\n  __x64_sys_ioctl+0x18e/0x210 fs/ioctl.c:893\n  do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]\n  do_syscall_64+0xcd/0x4c0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f\n\nFreed by task 6132:\n  kasan_save_stack+0x33/0x60 mm/kasan/common.c:47\n  kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30 mm/kasan/common.c:68\n  kasan_save_free_info+0x3b/0x60 mm/kasan/generic.c:576\n  poison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:247 [inline]\n  __kasan_slab_free+0x51/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:264\n  kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:233 [inline]\n  slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:2381 [inline]\n  slab_free mm/slub.c:4643 [inline]\n  kfree+0x2b4/0x4d0 mm/slub.c:4842\n  free_netdev+0x6c5/0x910 net/core/dev.c:11892\n  lecd_attach net/atm/lec.c:744 [inline]\n  lane_ioctl+0x1ce8/0x23e0 net/atm/lec.c:1008\n  do_vcc_ioctl+0x12c/0x930 net/atm/ioctl.c:159\n  sock_do_ioctl+0x118/0x280 net/socket.c:1190\n  sock_ioctl+0x227/0x6b0 net/socket.c:1311\n  vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]\n  __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:907 [inline]\n  __se_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:893 [inline]\n  __x64_sys_ioctl+0x18e/0x210 fs/ioctl.c:893"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e91274cc7ed88ab5bdc62d426067c82b0b118a0b"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a7a713dfb5f9477345450f27c7c0741864511192"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"17e156a94e94a906a570dbf9b48877956c60bef8"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"18e8f0c4f826fb08c2d3825cdd6c57e24b207e0a"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"dffd03422ae6a459039c8602f410e6c0f4cbc6c8"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f4d80b16ecc4229f7e6345158ef34c36be323f0e"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"64b378db28a967f7b271b055380c2360279aa424"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d13a3824bfd2b4774b671a75cf766a16637a0e67"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.12","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.12"},{"version":"5.4.295","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.239","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.186","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.142","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.95","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.35","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.15.4","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.15.*"},{"version":"6.16","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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