CVE-2025-38539

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel - Denial of Service via Concurrent Trace Event Addition

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0003
EPSS Percentile 7.3%
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 (28)
debian/debian_linux 11.0
linux/Kernel 2.6.31 - 5.4.297linux
linux/Kernel 5.11.0 - 5.15.190linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 6.1.147linux
linux/Kernel 5.5.0 - 5.10.241linux
linux/Kernel 6.13.0 - 6.15.8linux
linux/Kernel 6.2.0 - 6.6.100linux
linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.12.40linux
Linux/Linux < 2.6.31
Linux/Linux 110bf2b764eb6026b868d84499263cb24b1bcc8d - 33e20747b47ddc03569b6bc27a2d6894c1428182
... and 18 more
Published Aug 16, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026