Improper Locking Affecting kernel-source-azure package, versions <6.4.0-150700.20.11.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.03% (9th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES157-KERNELSOURCEAZURE-12238684
  • published29 Aug 2025
  • disclosed28 Aug 2025

Introduced: 28 Aug 2025

CVE-2025-38094  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-667  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.7 kernel-source-azure to version 6.4.0-150700.20.11.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-source-azure package and not the kernel-source-azure package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.7 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

net: cadence: macb: Fix a possible deadlock in macb_halt_tx.

There is a situation where after THALT is set high, TGO stays high as well. Because jiffies are never updated, as we are in a context with interrupts disabled, we never exit that loop and have a deadlock.

That deadlock was noticed on a sama5d4 device that stayed locked for days.

Use retries instead of jiffies so that the timeout really works and we do not have a deadlock anymore.

CVSS Base Scores

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