CVE-2025-68333 — Improper Locking in Linux
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
OSV7.2
EPSS
0.0%
top 96.09%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedDec 22
Latest updateApr 6
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
sched_ext: Fix possible deadlock in the deferred_irq_workfn()
For PREEMPT_RT=y kernels, the deferred_irq_workfn() is executed in
the per-cpu irq_work/* task context and not disable-irq, if the rq
returned by container_of() is current CPU's rq, the following scenarios
may occur:
lock(&rq->__lock);
lock(&rq->__lock);
This commit use IRQ_WORK_INIT_HARD() to replace init_irq_work() to
initialize rq->scx.deferred_irq_work, make …
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
Affected Packages6 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linux5b26f7b920f76b2b9cc398c252a9e35e44bf5bb9 — 541959b2fadb832a7d0ceb95041dc52bdcf6bff7+3