{"id":68268,"date":"2025-08-16T18:31:46","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T15:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2025-38551-virtio-net-deadlock-vulnerability\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T18:31:46","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T15:01:46","slug":"cve-2025-38551-virtio-net-deadlock-vulnerability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2025-38551-virtio-net-deadlock-vulnerability\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2025-38551 &#8211; &#8220;Virtio-Net Deadlock Vulnerability&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>CVE ID : <\/strong>CVE-2025-38551<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>Published : <\/strong> Aug. 16, 2025, 12:15 p.m. | 1\u00a0hour, 46\u00a0minutes ago<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>Description : <\/strong>In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<\/p>\n<p>virtio-net: fix recursived rtnl_lock() during probe()<\/p>\n<p>The deadlock appears in a stack trace like:<\/p>\n<p>  virtnet_probe()<br \/>\n    rtnl_lock()<br \/>\n    virtio_config_changed_work()<br \/>\n      netdev_notify_peers()<br \/>\n        rtnl_lock()<\/p>\n<p>It happens if the VMM sends a VIRTIO_NET_S_ANNOUNCE request while the<br \/>\nvirtio-net driver is still probing.<\/p>\n<p>The config_work in probe() will get scheduled until virtnet_open() enables<br \/>\nthe config change notification via virtio_config_driver_enable().<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>Severity:<\/strong> 0.0 | NA<br \/>\n<br \/>\nVisit the link for more details, such as CVSS details, affected products, timeline, and more&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID : CVE-2025-38551 Published : Aug. 16, 2025, 12:15 p.m. | 1\u00a0hour, 46\u00a0minutes ago Description : In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: virtio-net: fix recursived rtnl_lock() during probe() The deadlock appears in a stack trace like: virtnet_probe() rtnl_lock() virtio_config_changed_work() netdev_notify_peers() rtnl_lock() It happens if the VMM sends a VIRTIO_NET_S_ANNOUNCE request &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}