CVE-2025-40280

tipc: Fix use-after-free in tipc_mon_reinit_self().

published December 6, 2025

CVSS
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EPSS
0%
Percentile
3.5
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

tipc: Fix use-after-free in tipc_mon_reinit_self().

syzbot reported use-after-free of tipc_net(net)->monitors[]

in tipc_mon_reinit_self(). [0]

The array is protected by RTNL, but tipc_mon_reinit_self()

iterates over it without RTNL.

tipc_mon_reinit_self() is called from tipc_net_finalize(),

which is always under RTNL except for tipc_net_finalize_work().

Let's hold RTNL in tipc_net_finalize_work().

[0]:

BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __raw_spin_lock_irqsave include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:110 [inline]

BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0xa7/0xf0 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:162

Read of size 1 at addr ffff88805eae1030 by task kworker/0:7/5989

CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 5989 Comm: kworker/0:7 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT_{RT,(full)}

Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 08/18/2025

Workqueue: events tipc_net_finalize_work

Call Trace:

<TASK>

dump_stack_lvl+0x189/0x250 lib/dump_stack.c:120

print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:378 [inline]

print_report+0xca/0x240 mm/kasan/report.c:482

kasan_report+0x118/0x150 mm/kasan/report.c:595

__kasan_check_byte+0x2a/0x40 mm/kasan/common.c:568

kasan_check_byte include/linux/kasan.h:399 [inline]

lock_acquire+0x8d/0x360 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5842

__raw_spin_lock_irqsave include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:110 [inline]

_raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0xa7/0xf0 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:162

rtlock_slowlock kernel/locking/rtmutex.c:1894 [inline]

rwbase_rtmutex_lock_state kernel/locking/spinlock_rt.c:160 [inline]

rwbase_write_lock+0xd3/0x7e0 kernel/locking/rwbase_rt.c:244

rt_write_lock+0x76/0x110 kernel/locking/spinlock_rt.c:243

write_lock_bh include/linux/rwlock_rt.h:99 [inline]

tipc_mon_reinit_self+0x79/0x430 net/tipc/monitor.c:718

tipc_net_finalize+0x115/0x190 net/tipc/net.c:140

process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3236 [inline]

process_scheduled_works+0xade/0x17b0 kernel/workqueue.c:3319

worker_thread+0x8a0/0xda0 kernel/workqueue.c:3400

kthread+0x70e/0x8a0 kernel/kthread.c:463

ret_from_fork+0x439/0x7d0 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:148

ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245

</TASK>

Allocated by task 6089:

kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:47 [inline]

kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:68

poison_kmalloc_redzone mm/kasan/common.c:388 [inline]

__kasan_kmalloc+0x93/0xb0 mm/kasan/common.c:405

kasan_kmalloc include/linux/kasan.h:260 [inline]

__kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x1a8/0x320 mm/slub.c:4407

kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:905 [inline]

kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1039 [inline]

tipc_mon_create+0xc3/0x4d0 net/tipc/monitor.c:657

tipc_enable_bearer net/tipc/bearer.c:357 [inline]

__tipc_nl_bearer_enable+0xe16/0x13f0 net/tipc/bearer.c:1047

__tipc_nl_compat_doit net/tipc/netlink_compat.c:371 [inline]

tipc_nl_compat_doit+0x3bc/0x5f0 net/tipc/netlink_compat.c:393

tipc_nl_compat_handle net/tipc/netlink_compat.c:-1 [inline]

tipc_nl_compat_recv+0x83c/0xbe0 net/tipc/netlink_compat.c:1321

genl_family_rcv_msg_doit+0x215/0x300 net/netlink/genetlink.c:1115

genl_family_rcv_msg net/netlink/genetlink.c:1195 [inline]

genl_rcv_msg+0x60e/0x790 net/netlink/genetlink.c:1210

netlink_rcv_skb+0x208/0x470 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2552

genl_rcv+0x28/0x40 net/netlink/genetlink.c:1219

netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1320 [inline]

netlink_unicast+0x846/0xa10 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1346

netlink_sendmsg+0x805/0xb30 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1896

sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:714 [inline]

__sock_sendmsg+0x21c/0x270 net/socket.c:729

____sys_sendmsg+0x508/0x820 net/socket.c:2614

___sys_sendmsg+0x21f/0x2a0 net/socket.c:2668

__sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2700 [inline]

__do_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2705 [inline]

__se_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2703 [inline]

__x64_sys_sendmsg+0x1a1/0x260 net/socket.c:2703

do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]

do_syscall_64+0xfa/0x3b0 arch/

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The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00146 · 3.5th percentile
Published
2025-12-06T21:51Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 06 DEC 21:51Z
    tipc: Fix use-after-free in tipc_mon_reinit_self().
    cvelistv5