CVE-2025-38717

ADVISORY - nist

Summary

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().

EPSS Score: 0.001 (0.010)

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

ADVISORY - nist

Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')


NIST

CREATED

UPDATED

EXPLOITABILITY SCORE

1

EXPLOITS FOUND
-
COMMON WEAKNESS ENUMERATION (CWE)

CVSS SCORE

4.7medium

Debian

CREATED

UPDATED

EXPLOITABILITY SCORE

-

EXPLOITS FOUND
-
COMMON WEAKNESS ENUMERATION (CWE)-
RATING UNAVAILABLE FROM ADVISORY

Ubuntu

CREATED

UPDATED

EXPLOITABILITY SCORE

1.0

EXPLOITS FOUND
-
COMMON WEAKNESS ENUMERATION (CWE)-

CVSS SCORE

4.7medium

Amazon

CREATED

UPDATED

EXPLOITABILITY SCORE

-

EXPLOITS FOUND
-
COMMON WEAKNESS ENUMERATION (CWE)-

CVSS SCORE

N/Ahigh

Red Hat

CREATED

UPDATED

EXPLOITABILITY SCORE

-

EXPLOITS FOUND
-
COMMON WEAKNESS ENUMERATION (CWE)-
RATING UNAVAILABLE FROM ADVISORY

minimos

CREATED

UPDATED

ADVISORY ID

MINI-6xp8-48pg-mfmp

EXPLOITABILITY SCORE

-

EXPLOITS FOUND
-
COMMON WEAKNESS ENUMERATION (CWE)-
RATING UNAVAILABLE FROM ADVISORY