CVE-2025-39745

CVE-2025-39745

Medium · published September 11, 2025

CVSS v3.1
5.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
4.5
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

rcutorture: Fix rcutorture_one_extend_check() splat in RT kernels

For built with CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels, running rcutorture

tests resulted in the following splat:

[ 68.797425] rcutorture_one_extend_check during change: Current 0x1 To add 0x1 To remove 0x0 preempt_count() 0x0

[ 68.797533] WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 512 at kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c:1993 rcutorture_one_extend_check+0x419/0x560 [rcutorture]

[ 68.797601] Call Trace:

[ 68.797602] <TASK>

[ 68.797619] ? lockdep_softirqs_off+0xa5/0x160

[ 68.797631] rcutorture_one_extend+0x18e/0xcc0 [rcutorture 2466dbd2ff34dbaa36049cb323a80c3306ac997c]

[ 68.797646] ? local_clock+0x19/0x40

[ 68.797659] rcu_torture_one_read+0xf0/0x280 [rcutorture 2466dbd2ff34dbaa36049cb323a80c3306ac997c]

[ 68.797678] ? __pfx_rcu_torture_one_read+0x10/0x10 [rcutorture 2466dbd2ff34dbaa36049cb323a80c3306ac997c]

[ 68.797804] ? __pfx_rcu_torture_timer+0x10/0x10 [rcutorture 2466dbd2ff34dbaa36049cb323a80c3306ac997c]

[ 68.797815] rcu-torture: rcu_torture_reader task started

[ 68.797824] rcu-torture: Creating rcu_torture_reader task

[ 68.797824] rcu_torture_reader+0x238/0x580 [rcutorture 2466dbd2ff34dbaa36049cb323a80c3306ac997c]

[ 68.797836] ? kvm_sched_clock_read+0x15/0x30

Disable BH does not change the SOFTIRQ corresponding bits in

preempt_count() for RT kernels, this commit therefore use

softirq_count() to check the if BH is disabled.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00157 · 4.5th percentile
Published
2025-09-11T21:15Z
Affected products (2)
ProductVersionsFixed in
linux/linux_kernel< 6.15.116.15.11
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.16, < 6.16.26.16.2
References (3)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 11 SEP 16:52Z
    rcutorture: Fix rcutorture_one_extend_check() splat in RT kernels
    cvelistv5