Vulnerability Details CVE-2025-38525
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
rxrpc: Fix irq-disabled in local_bh_enable()
The rxrpc_assess_MTU_size() function calls down into the IP layer to find
out the MTU size for a route. When accepting an incoming call, this is
called from rxrpc_new_incoming_call() which holds interrupts disabled
across the code that calls down to it. Unfortunately, the IP layer uses
local_bh_enable() which, config dependent, throws a warning if IRQs are
enabled:
WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 5544 at kernel/softirq.c:387 __local_bh_enable_ip+0x43/0xd0
...
RIP: 0010:__local_bh_enable_ip+0x43/0xd0
...
Call Trace:
<TASK>
rt_cache_route+0x7e/0xa0
rt_set_nexthop.isra.0+0x3b3/0x3f0
__mkroute_output+0x43a/0x460
ip_route_output_key_hash+0xf7/0x140
ip_route_output_flow+0x1b/0x90
rxrpc_assess_MTU_size.isra.0+0x2a0/0x590
rxrpc_new_incoming_peer+0x46/0x120
rxrpc_alloc_incoming_call+0x1b1/0x400
rxrpc_new_incoming_call+0x1da/0x5e0
rxrpc_input_packet+0x827/0x900
rxrpc_io_thread+0x403/0xb60
kthread+0x2f7/0x310
ret_from_fork+0x2a/0x230
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
...
hardirqs last enabled at (23): _raw_spin_unlock_irq+0x24/0x50
hardirqs last disabled at (24): _raw_read_lock_irq+0x17/0x70
softirqs last enabled at (0): copy_process+0xc61/0x2730
softirqs last disabled at (25): rt_add_uncached_list+0x3c/0x90
Fix this by moving the call to rxrpc_assess_MTU_size() out of
rxrpc_init_peer() and further up the stack where it can be done without
interrupts disabled.
It shouldn't be a problem for rxrpc_new_incoming_call() to do it after the
locks are dropped as pmtud is going to be performed by the I/O thread - and
we're in the I/O thread at this point.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.0
EPSS Ranking 4.0%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 5.5
Products affected by CVE-2025-38525
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.14
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.14.1
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.14.10
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.14.11
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.14.2
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.14.3
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.14.4
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.14.5
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.14.6
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.14.7
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.14.8
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.14.9
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.15
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.15.1
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.15.2
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.15.3
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.15.4
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.15.5
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.15.6
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.15.7
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.16