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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-38211" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-07-04T13:37:30.307Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-05T12:00:23.526Z" 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-2025-38211" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38211.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38211" title: "RDMA/iwcm: Fix use-after-free of work objects after cm_id destruction" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nRDMA/iwcm: Fix use-after-free of work objects after cm_id destruction\n\nThe commit 59c68ac31e15 (\"iw_cm: free cm_id resources on the last\nderef\") simplified cm_id resource management by freeing cm_id once all\nreferences to the cm_id were removed. The references are removed either\nupon completion of iw_cm event handlers or when the application destroys\nthe cm_id. This commit introduced the use-after-free condition where\ncm_id_private object could still be in use by event handler works during\nthe destruction of cm_id. The commit aee2424246f9 (\"RDMA/iwcm: Fix a\nuse-after-free related to destroying CM IDs\") addressed this use-after-\nfree by flushing all pending works at the cm_id destruction.\n\nHowever, still another use-after-free possibility remained. It happens\nwith the work objects allocated for each cm_id_priv within\nalloc_work_entries() during cm_id creation, and subsequently freed in\ndealloc_work_entries() once all references to the cm_id are removed.\nIf the cm_id's last reference is decremented in the event handler work,\nthe work object for the work itself gets removed, and causes the use-\nafter-free BUG below:\n\n BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __pwq_activate_work+0x1ff/0x250\n Read of size 8 at addr ffff88811f9cf800 by task kworker/u16:1/147091\n\n CPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 147091 Comm: kworker/u16:1 Not tainted 6.15.0-rc2+ #27 PREEMPT(voluntary)\n Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-3.fc41 04/01/2014\n Workqueue: 0x0 (iw_cm_wq)\n Call Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n dump_stack_lvl+0x6a/0x90\n print_report+0x174/0x554\n ? __virt_addr_valid+0x208/0x430\n ? __pwq_activate_work+0x1ff/0x250\n kasan_report+0xae/0x170\n ? __pwq_activate_work+0x1ff/0x250\n __pwq_activate_work+0x1ff/0x250\n pwq_dec_nr_in_flight+0x8c5/0xfb0\n process_one_work+0xc11/0x1460\n ? __pfx_process_one_work+0x10/0x10\n ? assign_work+0x16c/0x240\n worker_thread+0x5ef/0xfd0\n ? __pfx_worker_thread+0x10/0x10\n kthread+0x3b0/0x770\n ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10\n ? rcu_is_watching+0x11/0xb0\n ? _raw_spin_unlock_irq+0x24/0x50\n ? rcu_is_watching+0x11/0xb0\n ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10\n ret_from_fork+0x30/0x70\n ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10\n ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30\n \u003c/TASK\u003e\n\n Allocated by task 147416:\n kasan_save_stack+0x2c/0x50\n kasan_save_track+0x10/0x30\n __kasan_kmalloc+0xa6/0xb0\n alloc_work_entries+0xa9/0x260 [iw_cm]\n iw_cm_connect+0x23/0x4a0 [iw_cm]\n rdma_connect_locked+0xbfd/0x1920 [rdma_cm]\n nvme_rdma_cm_handler+0x8e5/0x1b60 [nvme_rdma]\n cma_cm_event_handler+0xae/0x320 [rdma_cm]\n cma_work_handler+0x106/0x1b0 [rdma_cm]\n process_one_work+0x84f/0x1460\n worker_thread+0x5ef/0xfd0\n kthread+0x3b0/0x770\n ret_from_fork+0x30/0x70\n ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30\n\n Freed by task 147091:\n kasan_save_stack+0x2c/0x50\n kasan_save_track+0x10/0x30\n kasan_save_free_info+0x37/0x60\n __kasan_slab_free+0x4b/0x70\n kfree+0x13a/0x4b0\n dealloc_work_entries+0x125/0x1f0 [iw_cm]\n iwcm_deref_id+0x6f/0xa0 [iw_cm]\n cm_work_handler+0x136/0x1ba0 [iw_cm]\n process_one_work+0x84f/0x1460\n worker_thread+0x5ef/0xfd0\n kthread+0x3b0/0x770\n ret_from_fork+0x30/0x70\n ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30\n\n Last potentially related work creation:\n kasan_save_stack+0x2c/0x50\n kasan_record_aux_stack+0xa3/0xb0\n __queue_work+0x2ff/0x1390\n queue_work_on+0x67/0xc0\n cm_event_handler+0x46a/0x820 [iw_cm]\n siw_cm_upcall+0x330/0x650 [siw]\n siw_cm_work_handler+0x6b9/0x2b20 [siw]\n process_one_work+0x84f/0x1460\n worker_thread+0x5ef/0xfd0\n kthread+0x3b0/0x770\n ret_from_fork+0x30/0x70\n ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30\n\nThis BUG is reproducible by repeating the blktests test case nvme/061\nfor the rdma transport and the siw driver.\n\nTo avoid the use-after-free of cm_id_private work objects, ensure that\nthe last reference to the cm_id is decremented not in the event handler\nworks, but in the cm_id destruction context. For that purpose, mo\n---truncated---" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"59c68ac31e15ad09d2cb04734e3c8c544a95f8d4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"013dcdf6f03bcedbaf1669e3db71c34a197715b2"},{"version":"59c68ac31e15ad09d2cb04734e3c8c544a95f8d4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"bf7eff5e3a36c54bbe8aff7fd6dd7c07490b81c5"},{"version":"59c68ac31e15ad09d2cb04734e3c8c544a95f8d4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3b4a50d733acad6831f6bd9288a76a80f70650ac"},{"version":"59c68ac31e15ad09d2cb04734e3c8c544a95f8d4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"78381dc8a6b61c9bb9987d37b4d671b99767c4a1"},{"version":"59c68ac31e15ad09d2cb04734e3c8c544a95f8d4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"23a707bbcbea468eedb398832eeb7e8e0ceafd21"},{"version":"59c68ac31e15ad09d2cb04734e3c8c544a95f8d4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"764c9f69beabef8bdc651a7746c59f7a340d104f"},{"version":"59c68ac31e15ad09d2cb04734e3c8c544a95f8d4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"fd960b5ddf4faf00da43babdd3acda68842e1f6a"},{"version":"59c68ac31e15ad09d2cb04734e3c8c544a95f8d4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6883b680e703c6b2efddb4e7a8d891ce1803d06b"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.8","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.8"},{"version":"5.4.296","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.240","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":"6.6.95","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.35","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.15.4","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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