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CVE-2025-38352

7.8 HIGH Known exploited Published 2025-07-22 Modified 2026-09-08 Official page ↗

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability

Linux Kernel Time-of-Check Time-of-Use (TOCTOU) Race Condition Vulnerability — Linux Kernel

Linux kernel contains a time-of-check time-of-use (TOCTOU) race condition vulnerability that has a high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

Added to KEV: 2025-09-04
Remediation due: 2025-09-25
Ransomware use: Unknown
Required action: Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.
Notes: This vulnerability affects a common open-source component, third-party library, or a protocol used by different products. Please check with specific vendors for information on patching status. For more information, please see: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?id=2c72fe18cc5f9f1750f5bc148cf1c94c29e106ff ; https://source.android.com/docs/security/bulletin/2025-09-01 ; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-38352

Status: Analyzed
Published: 2025-07-22
Last modified: 2026-09-08
Assigner: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67): 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses: CWE-367

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: posix-cpu-timers: fix race between handle_posix_cpu_timers() and posix_cpu_timer_del() If an exiting non-autoreaping task has already passed exit_notify() and calls handle_posix_cpu_timers() from IRQ, it can be reaped by its parent or debugger right after unlock_task_sighand(). If a concurrent posix_cpu_timer_del() runs at that moment, it won't be able to detect timer->it.cpu.firing != 0: cpu_timer_task_rcu() and/or lock_task_sighand() will fail. Add the tsk->exit_state check into run_posix_cpu_timers() to fix this. This fix is not needed if CONFIG_POSIX_CPU_TIMERS_TASK_WORK=y, because exit_task_work() is called before exit_notify(). But the check still makes sense, task_work_add(&tsk->posix_cputimers_work.work) will fail anyway in this case.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 2.6.36 < 5.4.295) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.239) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.186) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 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) • linux linux kernel 6.16 • debian debian linux 11.0

Weakness · CWE (1)

CWE-367 Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition weakness

References