Bug 2388933 (CVE-2025-38544) - CVE-2025-38544 kernel: Linux kernel: Denial of Service in rxrpc due to prealloc collision
Summary: CVE-2025-38544 kernel: Linux kernel: Denial of Service in rxrpc due to preall...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2025-38544
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-08-16 12:02 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-12-22 15:14 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-08-16 12:02:22 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

rxrpc: Fix bug due to prealloc collision

When userspace is using AF_RXRPC to provide a server, it has to preallocate
incoming calls and assign to them call IDs that will be used to thread
related recvmsg() and sendmsg() together.  The preallocated call IDs will
automatically be attached to calls as they come in until the pool is empty.

To the kernel, the call IDs are just arbitrary numbers, but userspace can
use the call ID to hold a pointer to prepared structs.  In any case, the
user isn't permitted to create two calls with the same call ID (call IDs
become available again when the call ends) and EBADSLT should result from
sendmsg() if an attempt is made to preallocate a call with an in-use call
ID.

However, the cleanup in the error handling will trigger both assertions in
rxrpc_cleanup_call() because the call isn't marked complete and isn't
marked as having been released.

Fix this by setting the call state in rxrpc_service_prealloc_one() and then
marking it as being released before calling the cleanup function.


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