CVE-2025-38131 — Use After Free in Linux
Severity
7.8HIGHNVD
OSV3.2
EPSS
0.0%
top 92.81%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedJul 3
Latest updateMar 25
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)
//…
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 5.9
Affected Packages4 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linuxf8cce2ff3c04361b8843d8489620fda8880f668b — dfe8224c9c7a43d356eb9f74b06868aa05f90223+5
Also affects: Debian Linux 11.0