# 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-2025-38352"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-07-22T08:04:25.277Z"
updatedAt: "2026-09-08T15:32:28.302Z"
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-2025-38352"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38352.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38352"
title: "posix-cpu-timers: fix race between handle_posix_cpu_timers() and posix_cpu_timer_del()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nposix-cpu-timers: fix race between handle_posix_cpu_timers() and posix_cpu_timer_del()\n\nIf an exiting non-autoreaping task has already passed exit_notify() and\ncalls handle_posix_cpu_timers() from IRQ, it can be reaped by its parent\nor debugger right after unlock_task_sighand().\n\nIf a concurrent posix_cpu_timer_del() runs at that moment, it won't be\nable to detect timer-\u003eit.cpu.firing != 0: cpu_timer_task_rcu() and/or\nlock_task_sighand() will fail.\n\nAdd the tsk-\u003eexit_state check into run_posix_cpu_timers() to fix this.\n\nThis fix is not needed if CONFIG_POSIX_CPU_TIMERS_TASK_WORK=y, because\nexit_task_work() is called before exit_notify(). But the check still\nmakes sense, task_work_add(&tsk-\u003eposix_cputimers_work.work) will fail\nanyway in this case."
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