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CVE-2025-71274

MEDIUM SEVERITY

CVSS Score & Metrics

Base Score
4.7 / 10
Vector String
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Vulnerability Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

rpmsg: core: fix race in driver_override_show() and use core helper

The driver_override_show function reads the driver_override string
without holding the device_lock. However, the store function modifies
and frees the string while holding the device_lock. This creates a race
condition where the string can be freed by the store function while
being read by the show function, leading to a use-after-free.

To fix this, replace the rpmsg_string_attr macro with explicit show and
store functions. The new driver_override_store uses the standard
driver_set_override helper. Since the introduction of
driver_set_override, the comments in include/linux/rpmsg.h have stated
that this helper must be used to set or clear driver_override, but the
implementation was not updated until now.

Because driver_set_override modifies and frees the string while holding
the device_lock, the new driver_override_show now correctly holds the
device_lock during the read operation to prevent the race.

Additionally, since rpmsg_string_attr has only ever been used for
driver_override, removing the macro simplifies the code.

Vulnerability Details

Published Date
Last Modified
CWE ID
CWE-362
Source
NVD
Vendor
Linux
Product
Linux

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