CVE-2025-38552 Affecting kernel-rt-debug-kvm package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-KERNELRTDEBUGKVM-11975651
  • published18 Aug 2025
  • disclosed16 Aug 2025

Introduced: 16 Aug 2025

NewCVE-2025-38552  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:9 kernel-rt-debug-kvm.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-rt-debug-kvm package and not the kernel-rt-debug-kvm package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

mptcp: plug races between subflow fail and subflow creation

We have races similar to the one addressed by the previous patch between subflow failing and additional subflow creation. They are just harder to trigger.

The solution is similar. Use a separate flag to track the condition 'socket state prevent any additional subflow creation' protected by the fallback lock.

The socket fallback makes such flag true, and also receiving or sending an MP_FAIL option.

The field 'allow_infinite_fallback' is now always touched under the relevant lock, we can drop the ONCE annotation on write.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1