CVE-2025-38356

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel 6.11-6.12.36, 6.13-6.14.9, 6.15-6.15.4 - Denial of Service via CT Safe Mode Workqueue Unwind

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/xe/guc: Explicitly exit CT safe mode on unwind During driver probe we might be briefly using CT safe mode, which is based on a delayed work, but usually we are able to stop this once we have IRQ fully operational. However, if we abort the probe quite early then during unwind we might try to destroy the workqueue while there is still a pending delayed work that attempts to restart itself which triggers a WARN. This was recently observed during unsuccessful VF initialization: [ ] xe 0000:00:02.1: probe with driver xe failed with error -62 [ ] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ ] workqueue: cannot queue safe_mode_worker_func [xe] on wq xe-g2h-wq [ ] WARNING: CPU: 9 PID: 0 at kernel/workqueue.c:2257 __queue_work+0x287/0x710 [ ] RIP: 0010:__queue_work+0x287/0x710 [ ] Call Trace: [ ] delayed_work_timer_fn+0x19/0x30 [ ] call_timer_fn+0xa1/0x2a0 Exit the CT safe mode on unwind to avoid that warning. (cherry picked from commit 2ddbb73ec20b98e70a5200cb85deade22ccea2ec)

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0015
EPSS Percentile 5.0%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

Status published
Products (12)
linux/Kernel 6.11.0 - 6.12.37linux
linux/Kernel 6.13.0 - 6.15.5linux
Linux/Linux < 6.11
Linux/Linux 09b286950f2911615694f4a1ff491efe9ed5eeba - 6d0b588614c43d6334b2d7a70a99f31f7b14ecc0
Linux/Linux 09b286950f2911615694f4a1ff491efe9ed5eeba - ad40098da5c3b43114d860a5b5740e7204158534
Linux/Linux 09b286950f2911615694f4a1ff491efe9ed5eeba - f161e905b08ae8a513c5a36a10e3163e9920cfe6
Linux/Linux 6.11
Linux/Linux 6.12.37 - 6.12.*
Linux/Linux 6.15.5 - 6.15.*
Linux/Linux 6.16
... and 2 more
Published Jul 25, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026