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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-38666" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-08-22T16:02:58.144Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:32:37.617Z" 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-2025-38666" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38666.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38666" title: "net: appletalk: Fix use-after-free in AARP proxy probe" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: appletalk: Fix use-after-free in AARP proxy probe\n\nThe AARP proxy‐probe routine (aarp_proxy_probe_network) sends a probe,\nreleases the aarp_lock, sleeps, then re-acquires the lock. During that\nwindow an expire timer thread (__aarp_expire_timer) can remove and\nkfree() the same entry, leading to a use-after-free.\n\nrace condition:\n\n cpu 0 | cpu 1\n atalk_sendmsg() | atif_proxy_probe_device()\n aarp_send_ddp() | aarp_proxy_probe_network()\n mod_timer() | lock(aarp_lock) // LOCK!!\n timeout around 200ms | alloc(aarp_entry)\n and then call | proxies[hash] = aarp_entry\n aarp_expire_timeout() | aarp_send_probe()\n | unlock(aarp_lock) // UNLOCK!!\n lock(aarp_lock) // LOCK!! | msleep(100);\n __aarp_expire_timer(&proxies[ct]) |\n free(aarp_entry) |\n unlock(aarp_lock) // UNLOCK!! |\n | lock(aarp_lock) // LOCK!!\n | UAF aarp_entry !!\n\n==================================================================\nBUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in aarp_proxy_probe_network+0x560/0x630 net/appletalk/aarp.c:493\nRead of size 4 at addr ffff8880123aa360 by task repro/13278\n\nCPU: 3 UID: 0 PID: 13278 Comm: repro Not tainted 6.15.2 #3 PREEMPT(full)\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:94 [inline]\n dump_stack_lvl+0x116/0x1b0 lib/dump_stack.c:120\n print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:408 [inline]\n print_report+0xc1/0x630 mm/kasan/report.c:521\n kasan_report+0xca/0x100 mm/kasan/report.c:634\n aarp_proxy_probe_network+0x560/0x630 net/appletalk/aarp.c:493\n atif_proxy_probe_device net/appletalk/ddp.c:332 [inline]\n atif_ioctl+0xb58/0x16c0 net/appletalk/ddp.c:857\n atalk_ioctl+0x198/0x2f0 net/appletalk/ddp.c:1818\n sock_do_ioctl+0xdc/0x260 net/socket.c:1190\n sock_ioctl+0x239/0x6a0 net/socket.c:1311\n vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]\n __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:906 [inline]\n __se_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:892 [inline]\n __x64_sys_ioctl+0x194/0x200 fs/ioctl.c:892\n do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]\n do_syscall_64+0xcb/0x250 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f\n \u003c/TASK\u003e\n\nAllocated:\n aarp_alloc net/appletalk/aarp.c:382 [inline]\n aarp_proxy_probe_network+0xd8/0x630 net/appletalk/aarp.c:468\n atif_proxy_probe_device net/appletalk/ddp.c:332 [inline]\n atif_ioctl+0xb58/0x16c0 net/appletalk/ddp.c:857\n atalk_ioctl+0x198/0x2f0 net/appletalk/ddp.c:1818\n\nFreed:\n kfree+0x148/0x4d0 mm/slub.c:4841\n __aarp_expire net/appletalk/aarp.c:90 [inline]\n __aarp_expire_timer net/appletalk/aarp.c:261 [inline]\n aarp_expire_timeout+0x480/0x6e0 net/appletalk/aarp.c:317\n\nThe buggy address belongs to the object at ffff8880123aa300\n which belongs to the cache kmalloc-192 of size 192\nThe buggy address is located 96 bytes inside of\n freed 192-byte region [ffff8880123aa300, ffff8880123aa3c0)\n\nMemory state around the buggy address:\n ffff8880123aa200: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00\n ffff8880123aa280: 00 00 00 00 fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc\n\u003effff8880123aa300: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb\n ^\n ffff8880123aa380: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc\n ffff8880123aa400: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00\n==================================================================" affected: 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