CVE-2025-38524

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-38524
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-38524.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2025-38524
Downstream
Related
Published
2025-08-16T11:12:18.314Z
Modified
2025-11-27T19:35:36.666682Z
Summary
rxrpc: Fix recv-recv race of completed call
Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

rxrpc: Fix recv-recv race of completed call

If a call receives an event (such as incoming data), the call gets placed on the socket's queue and a thread in recvmsg can be awakened to go and process it. Once the thread has picked up the call off of the queue, further events will cause it to be requeued, and once the socket lock is dropped (recvmsg uses call->user_mutex to allow the socket to be used in parallel), a second thread can come in and its recvmsg can pop the call off the socket queue again.

In such a case, the first thread will be receiving stuff from the call and the second thread will be blocked on call->usermutex. The first thread can, at this point, process both the event that it picked call for and the event that the second thread picked the call for and may see the call terminate - in which case the call will be "released", decoupling the call from the user call ID assigned to it (RXRPCUSERCALLID in the control message).

The first thread will return okay, but then the second thread will wake up holding the user_mutex and, if it sees that the call has been released by the first thread, it will BUG thusly:

kernel BUG at net/rxrpc/recvmsg.c:474!

Fix this by just dequeuing the call and ignoring it if it is seen to be already released. We can't tell userspace about it anyway as the user call ID has become stale.

Database specific
{
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/blob/ee626f5d79d5817bb21d6f048dc0da4c4e383443/cves/2025/38xxx/CVE-2025-38524.json",
    "cna_assigner": "Linux"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
248f219cb8bcbfbd7f132752d44afa2df7c241d1
Fixed
7692bde890061797f3dece0148d7859e85c55778
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
248f219cb8bcbfbd7f132752d44afa2df7c241d1
Fixed
839fe96c15209dc2255c064bb44b636efe04f032
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
248f219cb8bcbfbd7f132752d44afa2df7c241d1
Fixed
6c75a97a32a5fa2060c3dd30207e63b6914b606d
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
248f219cb8bcbfbd7f132752d44afa2df7c241d1
Fixed
962fb1f651c2cf2083e0c3ef53ba69e3b96d3fbc

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
4.9.0
Fixed
6.6.100
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.7.0
Fixed
6.12.40
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.13.0
Fixed
6.15.8