CVE-2025-38717

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No network-facing service parses attacker data on this path.\nAC:L - The attacker controls both sides of the race, running `kcm_release()` in one thread while a second thread issues `SIOCKCMUNATTACH` on the reserved psock, and can retry the loop indefinitely until the window between `cancel_work_sync()` and `unreserve_psock()` is hit. syzbot hit it repeatedly with three separate reproducers, and `CONFIG_AF_KCM` is shipped as a module by major distributions.\nPR:L - There is not a single `capable()` or `CAP_NET_ADMIN` check in `net/kcm/`, and the protocol family autoloads on an unprivileged `socket(AF_KCM, ...)` call via `MODULE_ALIAS_NETPROTO(PF_KCM)`. Any local unprivileged user can attach a TCP socket and trigger the race.\nUI:N - The attacker performs every step \u2014 socket creation, attach, unattach, and close \u2014 from its own threads. 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psock, kcm_unattach() might get executed\nbetween cancel_work_sync() and unreserve_psock() in kcm_release(),\nrequeuing kcm->tx_work right before kcm gets freed in kcm_done().\n\nRemove kcm->tx_stopped and replace it by the less\nerror-prone disable_work_sync()."}, {"lang": "es", "value": "En el kernel de Linux, la siguiente vulnerabilidad ha sido resuelta:\n\nnet: kcm: Corrige condici\u00f3n de carrera en kcm_unattach()\n\nsyzbot encontr\u00f3 una condici\u00f3n de carrera cuando kcm_unattach(psock) y kcm_release(kcm) se ejecutan al mismo tiempo.\n\nA kcm_unattach() le falta una comprobaci\u00f3n del flag kcm->tx_stopped antes de llamar a queue_work().\n\nSi el kcm tiene un psock reservado, kcm_unattach() podr\u00eda ejecutarse entre cancel_work_sync() y unreserve_psock() en kcm_release(), volviendo a encolar kcm->tx_work justo antes de que kcm sea liberado en kcm_done().\n\nEliminar kcm->tx_stopped y reemplazarlo por el menos propenso a errores disable_work_sync()."}], "id": 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