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CVE-2025-38212: ipc: fix to protect IPCS lookups using RCU

Description

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

ipc: fix to protect IPCS lookups using RCU

syzbot reported that it discovered a use-after-free vulnerability, [0]

[0]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/

idr_for_each() is protected by rwsem, but this is not enough. If it is
not protected by RCU read-critical region, when idr_for_each() calls
radix_tree_node_free() through call_rcu() to free the radix_tree_node
structure, the node will be freed immediately, and when reading the next
node in radix_tree_for_each_slot(), the already freed memory may be read.

Therefore, we need to add code to make sure that idr_for_each() is
protected within the RCU read-critical region when we call it in
shm_destroy_orphaned().

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2025-38212

Affected Products

Vendor: Linux

Product: Linux

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.03% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 7.52% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-07-10 (when was this score calculated)

References

Timeline

2025-07-04 14:40:20 UTC
CVE

ipc: fix to protect IPCS lookups using RCU