CVE-2025-38704

HIGH

Linux Kernel - Use-After-Free in RCU NOCB Kthread Handling

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: rcu/nocb: Fix possible invalid rdp's->nocb_cb_kthread pointer access In the preparation stage of CPU online, if the corresponding the rdp's->nocb_cb_kthread does not exist, will be created, there is a situation where the rdp's rcuop kthreads creation fails, and then de-offload this CPU's rdp, does not assign this CPU's rdp->nocb_cb_kthread pointer, but this rdp's->nocb_gp_rdp and rdp's->rdp_gp->nocb_gp_kthread is still valid. This will cause the subsequent re-offload operation of this offline CPU, which will pass the conditional check and the kthread_unpark() will access invalid rdp's->nocb_cb_kthread pointer. This commit therefore use rdp's->nocb_gp_kthread instead of rdp_gp's->nocb_gp_kthread for safety check.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0015
EPSS Percentile 5.1%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

Status published
Products (21)
linux/Kernel 6.0.0 - 6.1.167linux
linux/Kernel 6.0.0 - 6.12.43linux
linux/Kernel 6.13.0 - 6.15.11linux
linux/Kernel 6.16.0 - 6.16.2linux
linux/Kernel 6.2.0 - 6.6.130linux
linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.12.43linux
Linux/Linux < 6.0
Linux/Linux 3a5761dc025da47960755ac64d9fbf1c32e8cd80 - 1bba3900ca18bdae28d1b9fa10f16a8f8cb2ada1
Linux/Linux 3a5761dc025da47960755ac64d9fbf1c32e8cd80 - 1c951683a720b17c9ecaad1932bc95b29044611f
Linux/Linux 3a5761dc025da47960755ac64d9fbf1c32e8cd80 - 3da45ec1e485a1a5ad31fe9ddd467c7ee5ae4ef9
... and 11 more
Published Sep 04, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026