CVE-2025-38617 – Linux Kernel Packet Netdev Up Event Race Condition

CVE ID : CVE-2025-38617

Published : Aug. 22, 2025, 2:15 p.m. | 2 hours, 11 minutes ago

Description : 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.

Severity: 0.0 | NA

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