Bug 2376094 (CVE-2025-38131) - CVE-2025-38131 kernel: coresight: prevent deactivate active config while enabling the config
Summary: CVE-2025-38131 kernel: coresight: prevent deactivate active config while enab...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2025-38131
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-07-03 09:04 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-07-03 14:20 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-07-03 09:04:45 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

coresight: prevent deactivate active config while enabling the config

While enable active config via cscfg_csdev_enable_active_config(),
active config could be deactivated via configfs' sysfs interface.
This could make UAF issue in below scenario:

CPU0                                          CPU1
(sysfs enable)                                load module
                                              cscfg_load_config_sets()
                                              activate config. // sysfs
                                              (sys_active_cnt == 1)
...
cscfg_csdev_enable_active_config()
lock(csdev->cscfg_csdev_lock)
// here load config activate by CPU1
unlock(csdev->cscfg_csdev_lock)

                                              deactivate config // sysfs
                                              (sys_activec_cnt == 0)
                                              cscfg_unload_config_sets()
                                              unload module

// access to config_desc which freed
// while unloading module.
cscfg_csdev_enable_config

To address this, use cscfg_config_desc's active_cnt as a reference count
 which will be holded when
    - activate the config.
    - enable the activated config.
and put the module reference when config_active_cnt == 0.

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2025-07-03 14:18:46 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025070330-CVE-2025-38131-2350@gregkh/T


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