CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-38131
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2025-07-03
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-416
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
coresight: prevent deactivate active config while enabling the config
While enable active config via cscfg_csdev_enable_active_config(),
active config could be deactivated via configfs' sysfs interface.
This could make UAF issue in below scenario:
CPU0 CPU1
(sysfs enable) load module
cscfg_load_config_sets()
activate config. // sysfs
(sys_active_cnt == 1)
...
cscfg_csdev_enable_active_config()
lock(csdev->cscfg_csdev_lock)
// here load config activate by CPU1
unlock(csdev->cscfg_csdev_lock)
deactivate config // sysfs
(sys_activec_cnt == 0)
cscfg_unload_config_sets()
unload module
// access to config_desc which freed
// while unloading module.
cscfg_csdev_enable_config
To address this, use cscfg_config_desc's active_cnt as a reference count
which will be holded when
- activate the config.
- enable the activated config.
and put the module reference when config_active_cnt == 0.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.15 < 6.1.142)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.94)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.34)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.15.3)
• debian debian linux 11.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-416 Use After Free weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/31028812724cef7bd57a51525ce58a32a6d73b22 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/408c97c4a5e0b634dcd15bf8b8808b382e888164 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b3b4efa2e623aecaebd7c9b9e4171f5c659e9724 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dfe8224c9c7a43d356eb9f74b06868aa05f90223 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ed42ee1ed05ff2f4c36938379057413a40c56680 Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00008.html Third Party Advisory