CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-71274
4.7 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2026-05-06
- Last modified
- 2026-10-19
- 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])
- 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:
rpmsg: core: fix race in driver_override_show() and use core helper
The driver_override_show function reads the driver_override string
without holding the device_lock. However, the store function modifies
and frees the string while holding the device_lock. This creates a race
condition where the string can be freed by the store function while
being read by the show function, leading to a use-after-free.
To fix this, replace the rpmsg_string_attr macro with explicit show and
store functions. The new driver_override_store uses the standard
driver_set_override helper. Since the introduction of
driver_set_override, the comments in include/linux/rpmsg.h have stated
that this helper must be used to set or clear driver_override, but the
implementation was not updated until now.
Because driver_set_override modifies and frees the string while holding
the device_lock, the new driver_override_show now correctly holds the
device_lock during the read operation to prevent the race.
Additionally, since rpmsg_string_attr has only ever been used for
driver_override, removing the macro simplifies the code.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.18 < 5.10.252)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.202)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.165)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.128)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.75)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.18.16)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.19 < 6.19.6)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2e4a70f3c30910427e5ea848b799066d67b963d5 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/392c6b68334aa0e0ae9aba95c0a366bcb0d92f5d Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/42023d4b6d2661a40ee2dcf7e1a3528a35c638ca Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/47615557447185917afa432b7958f87583c417cb Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7654e6e3cd6bdee9602f6063b3c670bd556d7e61 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/90c8353f471821d7ccd4fe573a2402e056192494 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/954557957177c3c13d7c655976665b1170da5e50 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d66b8074c555e8abb0ae19eea1c9f3635498bdde Patch