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CVE-2025-38617

4.7 medium SSVC exploitation: none Modified

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/packet: fix a race in packet_set_ring() and packet_notifier() When packet_set_ring() releases po->bind_lock, another thread can run packet_notifier() and process an NETDEV_UP event. This race and the fix are both similar to that of commit 15fe076edea7 ("net/packet: fix a race in packet_bind() and packet_notifier()"). There too the packet_notifier NETDEV_UP event managed to run while a po->bind_lock critical section had to be temporarily released. And the fix was similarly to temporarily set po->num to zero to keep the socket unhooked until the lock is retaken. The po->bind_lock in packet_set_ring and packet_notifier precede the introduction of git history.

Fix

Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 9

Every line above is quoted from NVD, CISA, Microsoft, the vendor's own advisory or DISA; nothing is generated.

Change history 1

  1. First seenCVSS 4.7 · linux, debianNVD modified 2026-10-15 22:18

Affected (CPE criteria) 7

  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.12:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.12:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.12:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.12:rc4:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.12:rc5:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:11.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References 13