Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Affecting linux-virt package, versions <6.12.24-r0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.03% (7th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-MINIMOSLATEST-LINUXVIRT-13805446
  • published2 Nov 2025
  • disclosed16 Apr 2025

Introduced: 16 Apr 2025

CVE-2025-22060  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-367  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Minimos:latest linux-virt to version 6.12.24-r0 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream linux-virt package and not the linux-virt package as distributed by Minimos. See How to fix? for Minimos:latest relevant fixed versions and status.

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

net: mvpp2: Prevent parser TCAM memory corruption

Protect the parser TCAM/SRAM memory, and the cached (shadow) SRAM information, from concurrent modifications.

Both the TCAM and SRAM tables are indirectly accessed by configuring an index register that selects the row to read or write to. This means that operations must be atomic in order to, e.g., avoid spreading writes across multiple rows. Since the shadow SRAM array is used to find free rows in the hardware table, it must also be protected in order to avoid TOCTOU errors where multiple cores allocate the same row.

This issue was detected in a situation where mvpp2_set_rx_mode() ran concurrently on two CPUs. In this particular case the MVPP2_PE_MAC_UC_PROMISCUOUS entry was corrupted, causing the classifier unit to drop all incoming unicast - indicated by the rx_classifier_drops counter.

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