CVE Catalog

CVE-2025-38306

HighCVSS 7.8
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.12%

2th percentile - higher than 2% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel, a race condition was found in the has_locked_children() function called by may_decode_fh() without holding locks. This can cause a system crash (oops). The fix renames the function to __has_locked_children() and adds a safe wrapper with locking.

Risk Assessment

An attacker could exploit this bug to cause a system crash (oops), leading to denial of service (DoS).

Recommendation

It is recommended to immediately update the Linux kernel to a version containing the fix.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fs/fhandle.c: fix a race in call of has_locked_children() may_decode_fh() is calling has_locked_children() while holding no locks. That's an oopsable race... The rest of the callers are safe since they are holding namespace_sem and are guaranteed a positive refcount on the mount in question. Rename the current has_locked_children() to __has_locked_children(), make it static and switch the fs/namespace.c users to it. Make has_locked_children() a wrapper for __has_locked_children(), calling the latter under read_seqlock_excl(&mount_lock).

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS