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CVE-2025-38352

posix-cpu-timers: fix race between handle_posix_cpu_timers() and posix_cpu_timer_del() PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: posix-cpu-timers: fix race between handle_posix_cpu_timers() and posix_cpu_timer_del() If an exiting non-autoreaping task has already passed exit_notify() and calls handle_posix_cpu_timers() from IRQ, it can be reaped by its parent or debugger right after unlock_task_sighand(). If a concurrent posix_cpu_timer_del() runs at that moment, it won't be able to detect timer->it.cpu.firing != 0: cpu_timer_task_rcu() and/or lock_task_sighand() will fail. Add the tsk->exit_state check into run_posix_cpu_timers() to fix this. This fix is not needed if CONFIG_POSIX_CPU_TIMERS_TASK_WORK=y, because exit_task_work() is called before exit_notify(). But the check still makes sense, task_work_add(&tsk->posix_cputimers_work.work) will fail anyway in this case.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected 0bdd2ed4138ec04e09b4f8165981efc99e439f55 before 78a4b8e3795b31dae58762bc091bb0f4f74a2200; affected 0bdd2ed4138ec04e09b4f8165981efc99e439f55 before c076635b3a42771ace7d276de8dc3bc76ee2ba1b; affected 0bdd2ed4138ec04e09b4f8165981efc99e439f55 before 2f3daa04a9328220de46f0d5c919a6c0073a9f0b; affected 0bdd2ed4138ec04e09b4f8165981efc99e439f55 before 764a7a5dfda23f69919441f2eac2a83e7db6e5bb; affected 0bdd2ed4138ec04e09b4f8165981efc99e439f55 before 2c72fe18cc5f9f1750f5bc148cf1c94c29e106ff; affected 0bdd2ed4138ec04e09b4f8165981efc99e439f55 before c29d5318708e67ac13c1b6fc1007d179fb65b4d7; affected 0bdd2ed4138ec04e09b4f8165981efc99e439f55 before 460188bc042a3f40f72d34b9f7fc6ee66b0b757b; affected 0bdd2ed4138ec04e09b4f8165981efc99e439f55 before f90fff1e152dedf52b932240ebbd670d83330eca
Linux / Linuxaffected 2.6.36; unaffected 0 before 2.6.36; unaffected 5.4.295 through 5.4.*; unaffected 5.10.239 through 5.10.*; unaffected 5.15.186 through 5.15.*; unaffected 6.1.142 through 6.1.*; unaffected 6.6.94 through 6.6.*; unaffected 6.12.34 through 6.12.*; unaffected 6.15.3 through 6.15.*; unaffected 6.16 through *

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