CVE-2025-38498 (GCVE-0-2025-38498)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-07-30 06:03
Modified
2025-11-03 17:39
Severity ?
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: do_change_type(): refuse to operate on unmounted/not ours mounts Ensure that propagation settings can only be changed for mounts located in the caller's mount namespace. This change aligns permission checking with the rest of mount(2).
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Linux Linux Version: 07b20889e3052c7e77d6a6a54e7e83446eb1ba84
Version: 07b20889e3052c7e77d6a6a54e7e83446eb1ba84
Version: 07b20889e3052c7e77d6a6a54e7e83446eb1ba84
Version: 07b20889e3052c7e77d6a6a54e7e83446eb1ba84
Version: 07b20889e3052c7e77d6a6a54e7e83446eb1ba84
Version: 07b20889e3052c7e77d6a6a54e7e83446eb1ba84
Version: 07b20889e3052c7e77d6a6a54e7e83446eb1ba84
Version: 07b20889e3052c7e77d6a6a54e7e83446eb1ba84
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