Race Condition The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kernel-rt-kvm (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-KERNELRTKVM-12167875
- published23 Aug 2025
- disclosed22 Aug 2025
Introduced: 22 Aug 2025
CVE-2025-38675 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:9.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-rt-kvm package and not the kernel-rt-kvm package as distributed by RHEL.
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.