CVE-2025-38709 — Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition in Linux
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
OSV3.2
EPSS
0.0%
top 93.10%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedSep 4
Latest updateApr 9
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
loop: Avoid updating block size under exclusive owner
Syzbot came up with a reproducer where a loop device block size is
changed underneath a mounted filesystem. This causes a mismatch between
the block device block size and the block size stored in the superblock
causing confusion in various places such as fs/buffer.c. The particular
issue triggered by syzbot was a warning in __getblk_slow() due to
requested buffer size not m…
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 3.6