CVE-2025-38551

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38551
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-38551.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2025-38551
Downstream
Related
Published
2025-08-16T11:34:19.544Z
Modified
2026-03-20T12:42:55.260562Z
Summary
virtio-net: fix recursived rtnl_lock() during probe()
Details

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

virtio-net: fix recursived rtnl_lock() during probe()

The deadlock appears in a stack trace like:

virtnetprobe() rtnllock() virtioconfigchangedwork() netdevnotifypeers() rtnllock()

It happens if the VMM sends a VIRTIONETS_ANNOUNCE request while the virtio-net driver is still probing.

The configwork in probe() will get scheduled until virtnetopen() enables the config change notification via virtioconfigdriver_enable().

Database specific 
{
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/38xxx/CVE-2025-38551.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
df28de7b00502761eba62490f413c65c9b175ed9
Fixed
4e7c46362550b229354aeb52038f414e231b0037
Fixed
3859f137b3c1fa1f0031d54263234566bdcdd7aa
Fixed
be5dcaed694e4255dc02dd0acfe036708c535def
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
cb06b26bb2e6d2c6a32f65f7bb1b7dcbe033d675

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-38551.json"