Vulnerability details

CVE-2025-38306

Linux Linux

fs/fhandle.c: fix a race in call of has_locked_children()

CVSS 3.1
7.8High

Official description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fs/fhandle.c: fix a race in call of has_locked_children() may_decode_fh() is calling has_locked_children() while holding no locks. That's an oopsable race... The rest of the callers are safe since they are holding namespace_sem and are guaranteed a positive refcount on the mount in question. Rename the current has_locked_children() to __has_locked_children(), make it static and switch the fs/namespace.c users to it. Make has_locked_children() a wrapper for __has_locked_children(), calling the latter under read_seqlock_excl(&mount_lock).

CVSS scores

ScoreVersionSourceVector
7.8High 3.1 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA) (Linux) CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

VendorProductVersionsSource
Linux Linux 6.11 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)
Linux Linux 620c266f394932e5decc4b34683a75dfc59dc2f4 ≤ v < 6482c3dccbfb8d20e2856ce67c75856859930b3f CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)
Linux Linux 620c266f394932e5decc4b34683a75dfc59dc2f4 ≤ v < 287c7d34eedd37af1272dfb3b6e8656f4f026424 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)
Linux Linux 620c266f394932e5decc4b34683a75dfc59dc2f4 ≤ v < 1f282cdc1d219c4a557f7009e81bc792820d9d9a CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)

References and advisories

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Details

Published
2025-07-10
Last updated
2026-08-05
State
Published
Assigner (CNA)
Linux

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

0.13%
Probability of exploitation in 30 days
3.1%
Percentile (among all CVEs)

Weaknesses (CWE)

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