CVE-2025-39908

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel 6.15-6.16.8 - Denial of Service via hwtstamp ioctl Race Condition

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: dev_ioctl: take ops lock in hwtstamp lower paths ndo hwtstamp callbacks are expected to run under the per-device ops lock. Make the lower get/set paths consistent with the rest of ndo invocations. Kernel log: WARNING: CPU: 13 PID: 51364 at ./include/net/netdev_lock.h:70 __netdev_update_features+0x4bd/0xe60 ... RIP: 0010:__netdev_update_features+0x4bd/0xe60 ... Call Trace: <TASK> netdev_update_features+0x1f/0x60 mlx5_hwtstamp_set+0x181/0x290 [mlx5_core] mlx5e_hwtstamp_set+0x19/0x30 [mlx5_core] dev_set_hwtstamp_phylib+0x9f/0x220 dev_set_hwtstamp_phylib+0x9f/0x220 dev_set_hwtstamp+0x13d/0x240 dev_ioctl+0x12f/0x4b0 sock_ioctl+0x171/0x370 __x64_sys_ioctl+0x3f7/0x900 ? __sys_setsockopt+0x69/0xb0 do_syscall_64+0x6f/0x2e0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53 ... </TASK> .... ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]--- Note that the mlx5_hwtstamp_set and mlx5e_hwtstamp_set functions shown in the trace come from an in progress patch converting the legacy ioctl to ndo_hwtstamp_get/set and are not present in mainline.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0012
EPSS Percentile 2.1%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

Status published
Products (9)
linux/Kernel 6.15.0 - 6.16.8linux
Linux/Linux < 6.15
Linux/Linux 6.15
Linux/Linux 6.16.8 - 6.16.*
Linux/Linux 6.17
Linux/Linux ffb7ed19ac0a9fa9ea79af1d7b42c03a10da98a5 - 2d92fa0cdc02291de57f72170e8b60cef0cf5372
Linux/Linux ffb7ed19ac0a9fa9ea79af1d7b42c03a10da98a5 - 686cab5a18e443e1d5f2abb17bed45837836425f
linux/linux_kernel 6.17 rc1 (5 CPE variants)
linux/linux_kernel 6.15 - 6.16.8
Published Oct 01, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026