CVE-2025-38352

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But the check still\nmakes sense, task_work_add(&tsk->posix_cputimers_work.work) will fail\nanyway in this case."}], "metrics": [{"cvssV3_1": {"version": "3.1", "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H", "baseScore": 7.8, "baseSeverity": "HIGH"}, "scenarios": [{"lang": "en", "value": "AV:L - The vulnerability is reached purely through local syscalls \u2014 `timer_create`/`timer_settime`/`timer_delete` (or `clock_nanosleep`) plus `ptrace`/`waitpid` to control task reaping \u2014 with the trigger arriving via the local timer tick. There is no network-facing path into posix-cpu-timers.\nAC:L - The attacker controls both sides of the race: it arms the CPU timer expiry, chooses the precise moment of `release_task()` by calling `waitpid()` from its own parent/tracer, and issues the concurrent `timer_delete()` from a sibling thread \u2014 retryable in a tight loop and widenable by queueing up to 20 timers on the firing list. Real-world exploitation of this exact bug confirms it is reliably winnable.\nPR:L - No capability or permission check exists anywhere on the path \u2014 `validate_clock_permissions()`/`pid_for_clock()` gate only on thread-group/pid existence, and `grep` for `capable`/`CAP_` in both posix-timers files returns nothing. Any unprivileged local user, including a seccomp-confined Android app UID, can reach it.\nUI:N - The attacker's own processes and threads perform every step \u2014 creating the timer, exiting the traced thread, reaping it, and deleting the timer. No victim action of any kind is needed.\nS:U - The use-after-free corrupts kernel heap objects and escalates within the kernel's own security authority, which is standard kernel privilege escalation. No hypervisor, IOMMU, or other security-authority boundary is crossed.\nC:H - The freed `struct sigqueue` is linked into the signal pending list by `send_sigqueue()` and later copied out to userspace through `dequeue_signal()`/`rt_sigtimedwait()`, disclosing whatever now occupies the reclaimed slab object \u2014 an effectively arbitrary kernel-memory read. The `do_cpu_nanosleep()` variant additionally exposes reclaimed kernel stack.\nI:H - `send_sigqueue()` writes into the freed object (`q->info.si_overrun++`) and performs a `list_add_tail()` linked-list insertion on attacker-resprayable memory, followed by a double free on dequeue \u2014 a classic controlled-write primitive leading to full privilege escalation, as demonstrated by in-the-wild exploitation of this flaw.\nA:H - Even without successful exploitation the race causes `BUG_ON(!(q->flags & SIGQUEUE_PREALLOC))` in `send_sigqueue()`, `WARN_ON_ONCE()` in the delete path, list corruption, and a double free \u2014 any of which oops or panic the kernel. 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The `do_cpu_nanosleep()` variant additionally exposes reclaimed kernel stack.\nI:H - `send_sigqueue()` writes into the freed object (`q->info.si_overrun++`) and performs a `list_add_tail()` linked-list insertion on attacker-resprayable memory, followed by a double free on dequeue \u2014 a classic controlled-write primitive leading to full privilege escalation, as demonstrated by in-the-wild exploitation of this flaw.\nA:H - Even without successful exploitation the race causes `BUG_ON(!(q->flags & SIGQUEUE_PREALLOC))` in `send_sigqueue()`, `WARN_ON_ONCE()` in the delete path, list corruption, and a double free \u2014 any of which oops or panic the kernel. 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