# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-37949"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-05-20T16:01:45.242Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T21:52:04.919Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:34.152Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-37949"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-37949.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-37949"
title: "xenbus: Use kref to track req lifetime"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nxenbus: Use kref to track req lifetime\n\nMarek reported seeing a NULL pointer fault in the xenbus_thread\ncallstack:\nBUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000\nRIP: e030:__wake_up_common+0x4c/0x180\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n __wake_up_common_lock+0x82/0xd0\n process_msg+0x18e/0x2f0\n xenbus_thread+0x165/0x1c0\n\nprocess_msg+0x18e is req-\u003ecb(req).  req-\u003ecb is set to xs_wake_up(), a\nthin wrapper around wake_up(), or xenbus_dev_queue_reply().  It seems\nlike it was xs_wake_up() in this case.\n\nIt seems like req may have woken up the xs_wait_for_reply(), which\nkfree()ed the req.  When xenbus_thread resumes, it faults on the zero-ed\ndata.\n\nLinux Device Drivers 2nd edition states:\n\"Normally, a wake_up call can cause an immediate reschedule to happen,\nmeaning that other processes might run before wake_up returns.\"\n... which would match the behaviour observed.\n\nChange to keeping two krefs on each request.  One for the caller, and\none for xenbus_thread.  Each will kref_put() when finished, and the last\nwill free it.\n\nThis use of kref matches the description in\nDocumentation/core-api/kref.rst"
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