CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-38539
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2025-08-16
- Last modified
- 2026-10-15
- 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
- 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:
tracing: Add down_write(trace_event_sem) when adding trace event
When a module is loaded, it adds trace events defined by the module. It
may also need to modify the modules trace printk formats to replace enum
names with their values.
If two modules are loaded at the same time, the adding of the event to the
ftrace_events list can corrupt the walking of the list in the code that is
modifying the printk format strings and crash the kernel.
The addition of the event should take the trace_event_sem for write while
it adds the new event.
Also add a lockdep_assert_held() on that semaphore in
__trace_add_event_dirs() as it iterates the list.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 2.6.31 < 5.4.297)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.241)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.190)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.147)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.100)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.40)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.15.8)
• linux linux kernel 6.16
• debian debian linux 11.0
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/33e20747b47ddc03569b6bc27a2d6894c1428182 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6bc94f20a4c304997288f9a45278c9d0c06987d3 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/70fecd519caad0c1741c3379d5348c9000a5b29d Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7803b28c9aa8d8bd4e19ebcf5f0db9612b0f333b Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b5e8acc14dcb314a9b61ff19dcd9fdd0d88f70df Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ca60064ea03f14e06c763de018403cb56ba3207d Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/db45632479ceecb669612ed8dbce927e3c6279fc Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e70f5ee4c8824736332351b703c46f9469ed7f6c Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00007.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00008.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory