CVE-2025-38717 in Linux
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di MITRE • 04/09/2025
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: kcm: Fix race condition in kcm_unattach()
syzbot found a race condition when kcm_unattach(psock) and kcm_release(kcm) are executed at the same time.
kcm_unattach() is missing a check of the flag kcm->tx_stopped before calling queue_work().
If the kcm has a reserved psock, kcm_unattach() might get executed between cancel_work_sync() and unreserve_psock() in kcm_release(), requeuing kcm->tx_work right before kcm gets freed in kcm_done().
Remove kcm->tx_stopped and replace it by the less error-prone disable_work_sync().
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