thunderbolt: Do not double dequeue a configuration request (Linux Linux)

CVE-2025-38174
HIGH 8.8

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.27 % · percentile 19 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Modified

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: thunderbolt: Do not double dequeue a configuration request Some of our devices crash in tb_cfg_request_dequeue(): general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdead000000000122 CPU: 6 PID: 91007 Comm: kworker/6:2 Tainted: G U W 6.6.65 RIP: 0010:tb_cfg_request_dequeue+0x2d/0xa0 Call Trace: <TASK> ? tb_cfg_request_dequeue+0x2d/0xa0 tb_cfg_request_work+0x33/0x80 worker_thread+0x386/0x8f0 kthread+0xed/0x110 ret_from_fork+0x38/0x50 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1b/0x30 The circumstances are unclear, however, the theory is that tb_cfg_request_work() can be scheduled twice for a request: first time via frame.callback from ring_work() and second time from tb_cfg_request(). Both times kworkers will execute tb_cfg_request_dequeue(), which results in double list_del() from the ctl->request_queue (the list poison deference hints at it: 0xdead000000000122). Do not dequeue requests that don't have TB_CFG_REQUEST_ACTIVE bit set.

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux
CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected 16603153666d22df544ae9f9b3764fd18da28eeb < e49e994cd83705f7ca30eda1e304abddfd96a37a ; affected 16603153666d22df544ae9f9b3764fd18da28eeb < 0a3011d47dbc92a33621861c423cb64833d7fe57 ; affected 16603153666d22df544ae9f9b3764fd18da28eeb < 2f62eda4d974c26bc595425eafd429067541f2c9 ; affected 16603153666d22df544ae9f9b3764fd18da28eeb < 85286e634ebbaf9c0fb1cdf580add2f33fc7628c ; affected 16603153666d22df544ae9f9b3764fd18da28eeb < 5a057f261539720165d03d85024da2b52e67f63d ; affected 16603153666d22df544ae9f9b3764fd18da28eeb < eb2d5e794fb966b3ef8bde99eb8561446a53509f
Linux · Linuxaffected 3.17 ; unaffected 0 < 3.17 ; unaffected 5.4.295 ≤ 5.4.* ; unaffected 5.10.239 ≤ 5.10.* ; unaffected 5.15.186 ≤ 5.15.* ; unaffected 6.1.142 ≤ 6.1.*

Sources

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CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
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