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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-38174" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-07-04T10:39:55.732Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-05T12:00:05.295Z" 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-2025-38174" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38174.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38174" title: "thunderbolt: Do not double dequeue a configuration request" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nthunderbolt: Do not double dequeue a configuration request\n\nSome of our devices crash in tb_cfg_request_dequeue():\n\n general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdead000000000122\n\n CPU: 6 PID: 91007 Comm: kworker/6:2 Tainted: G U W 6.6.65\n RIP: 0010:tb_cfg_request_dequeue+0x2d/0xa0\n Call Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n ? tb_cfg_request_dequeue+0x2d/0xa0\n tb_cfg_request_work+0x33/0x80\n worker_thread+0x386/0x8f0\n kthread+0xed/0x110\n ret_from_fork+0x38/0x50\n ret_from_fork_asm+0x1b/0x30\n\nThe circumstances are unclear, however, the theory is that\ntb_cfg_request_work() can be scheduled twice for a request:\nfirst time via frame.callback from ring_work() and second\ntime from tb_cfg_request(). Both times kworkers will execute\ntb_cfg_request_dequeue(), which results in double list_del()\nfrom the ctl-\u003erequest_queue (the list poison deference hints\nat it: 0xdead000000000122).\n\nDo not dequeue requests that don't have TB_CFG_REQUEST_ACTIVE\nbit set." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"16603153666d22df544ae9f9b3764fd18da28eeb","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e49e994cd83705f7ca30eda1e304abddfd96a37a"},{"version":"16603153666d22df544ae9f9b3764fd18da28eeb","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0a3011d47dbc92a33621861c423cb64833d7fe57"},{"version":"16603153666d22df544ae9f9b3764fd18da28eeb","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2f62eda4d974c26bc595425eafd429067541f2c9"},{"version":"16603153666d22df544ae9f9b3764fd18da28eeb","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"85286e634ebbaf9c0fb1cdf580add2f33fc7628c"},{"version":"16603153666d22df544ae9f9b3764fd18da28eeb","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5a057f261539720165d03d85024da2b52e67f63d"},{"version":"16603153666d22df544ae9f9b3764fd18da28eeb","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"eb2d5e794fb966b3ef8bde99eb8561446a53509f"},{"version":"16603153666d22df544ae9f9b3764fd18da28eeb","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0771bcbe2f6e5d5f263cf466efe571d2754a46da"},{"version":"16603153666d22df544ae9f9b3764fd18da28eeb","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"cdb4feab2f39e75a66239e3a112beced279612a8"},{"version":"16603153666d22df544ae9f9b3764fd18da28eeb","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0f73628e9da1ee39daf5f188190cdbaee5e0c98c"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.17","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.17"},{"version":"5.4.295","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.239","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.186","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.142","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.94","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.33","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.14.11","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.14.*"},{"version":"6.15.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.15.*"},{"version":"6.16","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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