# 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-2025-38131"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-07-03T08:35:35.036Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:21:51.665Z"
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-2025-38131"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38131.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38131"
title: "coresight: prevent deactivate active config while enabling the config"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ncoresight: prevent deactivate active config while enabling the config\n\nWhile enable active config via cscfg_csdev_enable_active_config(),\nactive config could be deactivated via configfs' sysfs interface.\nThis could make UAF issue in below scenario:\n\nCPU0                                          CPU1\n(sysfs enable)                                load module\n                                              cscfg_load_config_sets()\n                                              activate config. // sysfs\n                                              (sys_active_cnt == 1)\n...\ncscfg_csdev_enable_active_config()\nlock(csdev-\u003ecscfg_csdev_lock)\n// here load config activate by CPU1\nunlock(csdev-\u003ecscfg_csdev_lock)\n\n                                              deactivate config // sysfs\n                                              (sys_activec_cnt == 0)\n                                              cscfg_unload_config_sets()\n                                              unload module\n\n// access to config_desc which freed\n// while unloading module.\ncscfg_csdev_enable_config\n\nTo address this, use cscfg_config_desc's active_cnt as a reference count\n which will be holded when\n    - activate the config.\n    - enable the activated config.\nand put the module reference when config_active_cnt == 0."
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