CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-39673
4.7 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2025-09-05
- Last modified
- 2026-10-19
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 4.7 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-362
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ppp: fix race conditions in ppp_fill_forward_path
ppp_fill_forward_path() has two race conditions:
1. The ppp->channels list can change between list_empty() and
list_first_entry(), as ppp_lock() is not held. If the only channel
is deleted in ppp_disconnect_channel(), list_first_entry() may
access an empty head or a freed entry, and trigger a panic.
2. pch->chan can be NULL. When ppp_unregister_channel() is called,
pch->chan is set to NULL before pch is removed from ppp->channels.
Fix these by using a lockless RCU approach:
- Use list_first_or_null_rcu() to safely test and access the first list
entry.
- Convert list modifications on ppp->channels to their RCU variants and
add synchronize_net() after removal.
- Check for a NULL pch->chan before dereferencing it.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.13 < 5.15.190)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.149)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.103)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.44)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.16.4)
• linux linux kernel 6.17
• debian debian linux 11.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0417adf367a0af11adf7ace849af4638cfb573f7 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0f1630be6fcca3f0c63e4b242ad202e5cde28a40 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/94731cc551e29511d85aa8dec61a6c071b1f2430 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9a1969fbffc1f1900d92d7594b1b7d8d72ef3dc7 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ca18d751bcc9faf5b7e82e9fae1223d103928181 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f97f6475fdcb3c28ff3c55cc4b7bde632119ec08 Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00008.html Third Party Advisory
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-032379.html cert-portal.siemens.com