CVE-2025-38131

high

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: coresight: prevent deactivate active config while enabling the config While enable active config via cscfg_csdev_enable_active_config(), active config could be deactivated via configfs' sysfs interface. This could make UAF issue in below scenario: CPU0 CPU1 (sysfs enable) load module cscfg_load_config_sets() activate config. // sysfs (sys_active_cnt == 1) ... cscfg_csdev_enable_active_config() lock(csdev->cscfg_csdev_lock) // here load config activate by CPU1 unlock(csdev->cscfg_csdev_lock) deactivate config // sysfs (sys_activec_cnt == 0) cscfg_unload_config_sets() unload module // access to config_desc which freed // while unloading module. cscfg_csdev_enable_config To address this, use cscfg_config_desc's active_cnt as a reference count which will be holded when - activate the config. - enable the activated config. and put the module reference when config_active_cnt == 0.

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ed42ee1ed05ff2f4c36938379057413a40c56680

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dfe8224c9c7a43d356eb9f74b06868aa05f90223

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b3b4efa2e623aecaebd7c9b9e4171f5c659e9724

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/408c97c4a5e0b634dcd15bf8b8808b382e888164

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/31028812724cef7bd57a51525ce58a32a6d73b22

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-07-03

Updated: 2025-07-03

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00018