Race Condition The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kernel-ipaclones-internal  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS9-KERNELIPACLONESINTERNAL-12167820
  • published23 Aug 2025
  • disclosed22 Aug 2025

Introduced: 22 Aug 2025

NewCVE-2025-38675  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-362  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Centos security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Centos:9.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-ipaclones-internal package and not the kernel-ipaclones-internal package as distributed by Centos.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

xfrm: state: initialize state_ptrs earlier in xfrm_state_find

In case of preemption, xfrm_state_look_at will find a different pcpu_id and look up states for that other CPU. If we matched a state for CPU2 in the state_cache while the lookup started on CPU1, we will jump to "found", but the "best" state that we got will be ignored and we will enter the "acquire" block. This block uses state_ptrs, which isn't initialized at this point.

Let's initialize state_ptrs just after taking rcu_read_lock. This will also prevent a possible misuse in the future, if someone adjusts this function.