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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-38445" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-07-25T15:27:28.035Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:28:08.626Z" 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-2025-38445" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38445.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38445" title: "md/raid1: Fix stack memory use after return in raid1_reshape" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmd/raid1: Fix stack memory use after return in raid1_reshape\n\nIn the raid1_reshape function, newpool is\nallocated on the stack and assigned to conf-\u003er1bio_pool.\nThis results in conf-\u003er1bio_pool.wait.head pointing\nto a stack address.\nAccessing this address later can lead to a kernel panic.\n\nExample access path:\n\nraid1_reshape()\n{\n\t// newpool is on the stack\n\tmempool_t newpool, oldpool;\n\t// initialize newpool.wait.head to stack address\n\tmempool_init(&newpool, ...);\n\tconf-\u003er1bio_pool = newpool;\n}\n\nraid1_read_request() or raid1_write_request()\n{\n\talloc_r1bio()\n\t{\n\t\tmempool_alloc()\n\t\t{\n\t\t\t// if pool-\u003ealloc fails\n\t\t\tremove_element()\n\t\t\t{\n\t\t\t\t--pool-\u003ecurr_nr;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t}\n\t}\n}\n\nmempool_free()\n{\n\tif (pool-\u003ecurr_nr \u003c pool-\u003emin_nr) {\n\t\t// pool-\u003ewait.head is a stack address\n\t\t// wake_up() will try to access this invalid address\n\t\t// which leads to a kernel panic\n\t\treturn;\n\t\twake_up(&pool-\u003ewait);\n\t}\n}\n\nFix:\nreinit conf-\u003er1bio_pool.wait after assigning newpool." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"afeee514ce7f4cab605beedd03be71ebaf0c5fc8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d8a6853d00fbaa810765c8ed2f452a5832273968"},{"version":"afeee514ce7f4cab605beedd03be71ebaf0c5fc8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"12b00ec99624f8da8c325f2dd6e807df26df0025"},{"version":"afeee514ce7f4cab605beedd03be71ebaf0c5fc8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"48da050b4f54ed639b66278d0ae6f4107b2c4e2d"},{"version":"afeee514ce7f4cab605beedd03be71ebaf0c5fc8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5f35e48b76655e45522df338876dfef88dafcc71"},{"version":"afeee514ce7f4cab605beedd03be71ebaf0c5fc8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"df5894014a92ff0196dbc212a7764e97366fd2b7"},{"version":"afeee514ce7f4cab605beedd03be71ebaf0c5fc8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"776e6186dc9ecbdb8a1b706e989166c8a99bbf64"},{"version":"afeee514ce7f4cab605beedd03be71ebaf0c5fc8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"61fd5e93006cf82ec8ee5c115ab5cf4bbd104bdb"},{"version":"afeee514ce7f4cab605beedd03be71ebaf0c5fc8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d67ed2ccd2d1dcfda9292c0ea8697a9d0f2f0d98"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.18","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.18"},{"version":"5.4.296","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.240","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.189","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.146","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.99","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.39","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.15.7","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.15.*"},{"version":"6.16","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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