CVE-2025-38206

medium
Published 2026-02-23 ยท Modified 2026-02-26
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.5

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: exfat: fix double free in delayed_free The double free could happen in the following path. exfat_create_upcase_table() exfat_create_upcase_table() : return error exfat_free_upcase_table() : free ->vol_utbl exfat_load_default_upcase_table : return error exfat_kill_sb() delayed_free() exfat_free_upcase_table() <--------- double free This patch set ->vol_util as NULL after freeing it.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

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OS impact

suse SUSE Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
โ€” Affected โ€”
debian Debian Mixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Affected โ€”
sid Fixed 6.16.3-1
forky Fixed 6.16.3-1
bullseye Fixed 5.10.244-1
bookworm Affected โ€”
almalinux AlmaLinux Fixed 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
9 Fixed kernel-debug-devel-5.14.0-611.35.1.el9_7.aarch64.rpm
redhat Red Hat Fixed 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
9 Fixed โ€”

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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