CVE-2025-23163
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CVE Details
| Release Date: | 2025-05-01 | |
| Impact: | Moderate | What is this? |
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: vlan: don't propagate flags on open
With the device instance lock, there is now a possibility of a deadlock:
[ 1.211455] ============================================
[ 1.211571] WARNING: possible recursive locking detected
[ 1.211687] 6.14.0-rc5-01215-g032756b4ca7a-dirty #5 Not tainted
[ 1.211823] --------------------------------------------
[ 1.211936] ip/184 is trying to acquire lock:
[ 1.212032] ffff8881024a4c30 (&dev->lock){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: dev_set_allmulti+0x4e/0xb0
[ 1.212207]
[ 1.212207] but task is already holding lock:
[ 1.212332] ffff8881024a4c30 (&dev->lock){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: dev_open+0x50/0xb0
[ 1.212487]
[ 1.212487] other info that might help us debug this:
[ 1.212626] Possible unsafe locking scenario:
[ 1.212626]
[ 1.212751] CPU0
[ 1.212815] ----
[ 1.212871] lock(&dev->lock);
[ 1.212944] lock(&dev->lock);
[ 1.213016]
[ 1.213016] *** DEADLOCK ***
[ 1.213016]
[ 1.213143] May be due to missing lock nesting notation
[ 1.213143]
[ 1.213294] 3 locks held by ip/184:
[ 1.213371] #0: ffffffff838b53e0 (rtnl_mutex){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: rtnl_nets_lock+0x1b/0xa0
[ 1.213543] #1: ffffffff84e5fc70 (&net->rtnl_mutex){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: rtnl_nets_lock+0x37/0xa0
[ 1.213727] #2: ffff8881024a4c30 (&dev->lock){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: dev_open+0x50/0xb0
[ 1.213895]
[ 1.213895] stack backtrace:
[ 1.213991] CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 184 Comm: ip Not tainted 6.14.0-rc5-01215-g032756b4ca7a-dirty #5
[ 1.213993] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS Arch Linux 1.16.3-1-1 04/01/2014
[ 1.213994] Call Trace:
[ 1.213995]
See more information about CVE-2025-23163 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD
NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
CVSS v3 metrics
| Base Score: | 5.5 |
| Vector String: | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| Version: | 3.1 |
| Attack Vector: | Local |
| Attack Complexity: | Low |
| Privileges Required: | Low |
| User Interaction: | None |
| Scope: | Unchanged |
| Confidentiality Impact: | None |
| Integrity Impact: | None |
| Availability Impact: | High |
Errata information
| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
| Oracle Linux version 7 (kernel-uek) | ELSA-2025-20471 | 2025-07-14 |
| Oracle Linux version 8 (kernel-uek) | ELSA-2025-20470 | 2025-07-14 |
| Oracle Linux version 8 (kernel-uek) | ELSA-2025-20471 | 2025-07-14 |
| Oracle Linux version 9 (kernel-uek) | ELSA-2025-20470 | 2025-07-14 |
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