Description

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

net: use sock_gen_put() when sk_state is TCP_TIME_WAIT

It is possible for a pointer of type struct inet_timewait_sock to be
returned from the functions __inet_lookup_established() and
__inet6_lookup_established(). This can cause a crash when the
returned pointer is of type struct inet_timewait_sock and
sock_put() is called on it. The following is a crash call stack that
shows sk->sk_wmem_alloc being accessed in sk_free() during the call to
sock_put() on a struct inet_timewait_sock pointer. To avoid this issue,
use sock_gen_put() instead of sock_put() when sk->sk_state
is TCP_TIME_WAIT.

mrdump.ko ipanic() + 120
vmlinux notifier_call_chain(nr_to_call=-1, nr_calls=0) + 132
vmlinux atomic_notifier_call_chain(val=0) + 56
vmlinux panic() + 344
vmlinux add_taint() + 164
vmlinux end_report() + 136
vmlinux kasan_report(size=0) + 236
vmlinux report_tag_fault() + 16
vmlinux do_tag_recovery() + 16
vmlinux __do_kernel_fault() + 88
vmlinux do_bad_area() + 28
vmlinux do_tag_check_fault() + 60
vmlinux do_mem_abort() + 80
vmlinux el1_abort() + 56
vmlinux el1h_64_sync_handler() + 124
vmlinux > 0xFFFFFFC080011294()
vmlinux __lse_atomic_fetch_add_release(v=0xF2FFFF82A896087C)
vmlinux __lse_atomic_fetch_sub_release(v=0xF2FFFF82A896087C)
vmlinux arch_atomic_fet...

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2025-37894

Affected Products

Vendor: Linux

Product: Linux

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.02% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 4.26% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-06-18 (when was this score calculated)

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-37894
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c0dba059b118b5206e755042b15b49368a388898
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/786650e644c5b1c063921799ca203c0b8670d79a
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f920436a44295ca791ebb6dae3f4190142eec703

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