CVE-2025-38524CWE-362

CVE-2025-38524

High · published August 16, 2025

CVSS v3.1
7.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
18.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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->user_mutex. 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 (RXRPC_USER_CALL_ID 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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.5 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00274 · 18.8th percentile
Weakness
CWE-362 · Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')
Published
2025-08-16T16:15Z
Affected products (9)
ProductVersionsFixed in
linux/linux_kernel≥ 4.9, < 6.6.1006.6.100
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.7, < 6.12.406.12.40
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.13, < 6.15.86.15.8
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References (5)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 16 AUG 11:12Z
    rxrpc: Fix recv-recv race of completed call
    cvelistv5