CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-37808
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2025-05-08
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
crypto: null - Use spin lock instead of mutex
As the null algorithm may be freed in softirq context through
af_alg, use spin locks instead of mutexes to protect the default
null algorithm.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.2 < 5.4.293)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.237)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.181)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.136)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.89)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.26)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.14.5)
• debian debian linux 11.0
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0486de3c1b8223138dcc614846bd76364f758de6 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1b66a5920b7fc7cc6251192a3fcad115b6d75dd5 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1dd4a8561d85dea545cf93f56efc48df8176e218 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8cf2945512a8c0ef74ddd5b5a4f6b6a2fb1a4efb Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dcc47a028c24e793ce6d6efebfef1a1e92f80297 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e27244cbe10658a66b8775be7f0acc4ad2f618d6 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e307c54ac8198bf09652c72603ba6e6d97798410 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f7a5a5c8e1ec16a4b2041398abe95de0e14572ef Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00030.html Mailing List
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00045.html Mailing List