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CVE-2025-38539

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CVE-2025-38539

Published: Aug 16, 2025

Modified: May 11, 2026

PUBLISHED

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tracing: Add down_write(trace_event_sem) when adding trace event When a module is loaded, it adds trace events defined by the module. It may also need to modify the modules trace printk formats to replace enum names with their values. If two modules are loaded at the same time, the adding of the event to the ftrace_events list can corrupt the walking of the list in the code that is modifying the printk format strings and crash the kernel. The addition of the event should take the trace_event_sem for write while it adds the new event. Also add a lockdep_assert_held() on that semaphore in __trace_add_event_dirs() as it iterates the list.

VendorProductVersions

Linux

Linux

affected
110bf2b764eb6026b868d84499263cb24b1bcc8d - < e70f5ee4c8824736332351b703c46f9469ed7f6c
affected
110bf2b764eb6026b868d84499263cb24b1bcc8d - < db45632479ceecb669612ed8dbce927e3c6279fc
affected
110bf2b764eb6026b868d84499263cb24b1bcc8d - < ca60064ea03f14e06c763de018403cb56ba3207d
affected
110bf2b764eb6026b868d84499263cb24b1bcc8d - < 7803b28c9aa8d8bd4e19ebcf5f0db9612b0f333b
affected
110bf2b764eb6026b868d84499263cb24b1bcc8d - < 6bc94f20a4c304997288f9a45278c9d0c06987d3

+3 more versions

Linux

Linux

affected
2.6.31
unaffected
0 - < 2.6.31
unaffected
5.4.297 - <= 5.4.*
unaffected
5.10.241 - <= 5.10.*
unaffected
5.15.190 - <= 5.15.*

+5 more versions

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