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FKIE_CVE-2025-38525

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-08-16 12:15 - Updated: 2026-08-10 13:17

Severity

7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: rxrpc: Fix irq-disabled in local_bh_enable() The rxrpc_assess_MTU_size() function calls down into the IP layer to find out the MTU size for a route. When accepting an incoming call, this is called from rxrpc_new_incoming_call() which holds interrupts disabled across the code that calls down to it. Unfortunately, the IP layer uses local_bh_enable() which, config dependent, throws a warning if IRQs are enabled: WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 5544 at kernel/softirq.c:387 __local_bh_enable_ip+0x43/0xd0 ... RIP: 0010:__local_bh_enable_ip+0x43/0xd0 ... Call Trace: <TASK> rt_cache_route+0x7e/0xa0 rt_set_nexthop.isra.0+0x3b3/0x3f0 __mkroute_output+0x43a/0x460 ip_route_output_key_hash+0xf7/0x140 ip_route_output_flow+0x1b/0x90 rxrpc_assess_MTU_size.isra.0+0x2a0/0x590 rxrpc_new_incoming_peer+0x46/0x120 rxrpc_alloc_incoming_call+0x1b1/0x400 rxrpc_new_incoming_call+0x1da/0x5e0 rxrpc_input_packet+0x827/0x900 rxrpc_io_thread+0x403/0xb60 kthread+0x2f7/0x310 ret_from_fork+0x2a/0x230 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 ... hardirqs last enabled at (23): _raw_spin_unlock_irq+0x24/0x50 hardirqs last disabled at (24): _raw_read_lock_irq+0x17/0x70 softirqs last enabled at (0): copy_process+0xc61/0x2730 softirqs last disabled at (25): rt_add_uncached_list+0x3c/0x90 Fix this by moving the call to rxrpc_assess_MTU_size() out of rxrpc_init_peer() and further up the stack where it can be done without interrupts disabled. It shouldn't be a problem for rxrpc_new_incoming_call() to do it after the locks are dropped as pmtud is going to be performed by the I/O thread - and we're in the I/O thread at this point.

References

URL	Tags
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2029f21f10dedb88c0f86abffcf8d6c21dcf6040	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8ac0b3baa7d8f732bd9e5cbf1d8b57e4802c6b36
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d94b82d452ca27a200cd67660dc48476386651d8
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e4d2878369d590bf8455e3678a644e503172eafa	Patch

Impacted products

Vendor	Product	Version
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	6.16
linux	linux_kernel	6.16
linux	linux_kernel	6.16
linux	linux_kernel	6.16
linux	linux_kernel	6.16
linux	linux_kernel	6.16

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CVE-2025-38525 (GCVE-0-2025-38525)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-08-16 11:12 – Updated: 2026-08-10 12:10

Title

rxrpc: Fix irq-disabled in local_bh_enable()

Summary

Severity

7.5 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Assigner

Linux mitre root

References

4 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d94b82d452ca27a20…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8ac0b3baa7d8f732b…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2029f21f10dedb88c…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e4d2878369d590bf8…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: 77433b730970ca6e51d03016e830d8ab1b22685a , < d94b82d452ca27a200cd67660dc48476386651d8 (git) Affected: 09c59a82298f424f6212c67fbea531853e88ce6c , < 8ac0b3baa7d8f732bd9e5cbf1d8b57e4802c6b36 (git) Affected: a2ea9a9072607c2fd6442bd1ffb4dbdbf882aed7 , < 2029f21f10dedb88c0f86abffcf8d6c21dcf6040 (git) Affected: a2ea9a9072607c2fd6442bd1ffb4dbdbf882aed7 , < e4d2878369d590bf8455e3678a644e503172eafa (git) Affected: 6.6.148 , < 6.6.151 (semver) Affected: 6.12.101 , < 6.12.103 (semver)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 6.14 Unaffected: 0 , < 6.14 (semver) Unaffected: 6.6.151 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.12.103 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.15.8 , ≤ 6.15.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.16 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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          "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nrxrpc: Fix irq-disabled in local_bh_enable()\n\nThe rxrpc_assess_MTU_size() function calls down into the IP layer to find\nout the MTU size for a route.  When accepting an incoming call, this is\ncalled from rxrpc_new_incoming_call() which holds interrupts disabled\nacross the code that calls down to it.  Unfortunately, the IP layer uses\nlocal_bh_enable() which, config dependent, throws a warning if IRQs are\nenabled:\n\nWARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 5544 at kernel/softirq.c:387 __local_bh_enable_ip+0x43/0xd0\n...\nRIP: 0010:__local_bh_enable_ip+0x43/0xd0\n...\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n rt_cache_route+0x7e/0xa0\n rt_set_nexthop.isra.0+0x3b3/0x3f0\n __mkroute_output+0x43a/0x460\n ip_route_output_key_hash+0xf7/0x140\n ip_route_output_flow+0x1b/0x90\n rxrpc_assess_MTU_size.isra.0+0x2a0/0x590\n rxrpc_new_incoming_peer+0x46/0x120\n rxrpc_alloc_incoming_call+0x1b1/0x400\n rxrpc_new_incoming_call+0x1da/0x5e0\n rxrpc_input_packet+0x827/0x900\n rxrpc_io_thread+0x403/0xb60\n kthread+0x2f7/0x310\n ret_from_fork+0x2a/0x230\n ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30\n...\nhardirqs last  enabled at (23): _raw_spin_unlock_irq+0x24/0x50\nhardirqs last disabled at (24): _raw_read_lock_irq+0x17/0x70\nsoftirqs last  enabled at (0): copy_process+0xc61/0x2730\nsoftirqs last disabled at (25): rt_add_uncached_list+0x3c/0x90\n\nFix this by moving the call to rxrpc_assess_MTU_size() out of\nrxrpc_init_peer() and further up the stack where it can be done without\ninterrupts disabled.\n\nIt shouldn\u0027t be a problem for rxrpc_new_incoming_call() to do it after the\nlocks are dropped as pmtud is going to be performed by the I/O thread - and\nwe\u0027re in the I/O thread at this point."
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              "value": "AV:N - The vulnerable path is entered directly from `rxrpc_encap_rcv()`/`rxrpc_input_packet()` when an rxrpc DATA packet arrives over UDP from an unknown peer, and kAFS binds its callback-manager service socket to `in6addr_any:7001`, so any routable remote host can reach it.\nAC:L - The attacker fully controls every precondition \u2014 a single crafted rxrpc DATA packet (`callNumber != 0`, `seq == 1`, matching serviceId) from a source port not yet in the peer hash deterministically forces new-peer creation and the MTU assessment under `read_lock_irq()`; no memory layout, timing, or victim state is involved.\nPR:N - `rxrpc_new_incoming_call()` runs entirely before any rxrpc authentication \u2014 the CHALLENGE/RESPONSE handshake is only queued after the call is made live, and `rxrpc_get_incoming_security()` merely validates that the security index is supported, so an unauthenticated off-path attacker suffices.\nUI:N - The AFS/rxrpc service socket is already bound and listening as soon as AFS is in use; processing of the attacker\u0027s packet happens autonomously in the rxrpc I/O kernel thread with no victim action.\nS:U - The fault and its effects are confined to the kernel\u0027s own security authority on the affected host; no VM, IOMMU, or sandbox boundary is crossed.\nC:N - The defect is purely a locking/IRQ-context violation with no out-of-bounds read, use-after-free, or uninitialised data exposure; nothing is leaked to the remote attacker, who cannot observe the kernel log.\nI:N - No memory is corrupted and no attacker-controlled data is written out of bounds \u2014 the peer backlog ring update completes before the offending call, so there is no write primitive or state modification available.\nA:H - `lockdep_assert_irqs_enabled()` WARNs on `CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING` kernels, which is a hard panic under the widely deployed `panic_on_warn=1`; independently of that config, `do_softirq()`/`handle_softirqs()` re-enables hardirqs and burns up to 2 ms \u00d7 10 restarts of softirq work inside the `read_lock_irq()` + `spin_lock()` section, stalling the rxrpc I/O thread \u2014 and the whole sequence is remotely repeatable at packet rate by rotating source ports."
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