# 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-2025-38404"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-07-25T13:09:25.822Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:27:19.855Z"
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-2025-38404"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38404.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38404"
title: "usb: typec: displayport: Fix potential deadlock"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nusb: typec: displayport: Fix potential deadlock\n\nThe deadlock can occur due to a recursive lock acquisition of\n`cros_typec_altmode_data::mutex`.\nThe call chain is as follows:\n1. cros_typec_altmode_work() acquires the mutex\n2. typec_altmode_vdm() -\u003e dp_altmode_vdm() -\u003e\n3. typec_altmode_exit() -\u003e cros_typec_altmode_exit()\n4. cros_typec_altmode_exit() attempts to acquire the mutex again\n\nTo prevent this, defer the `typec_altmode_exit()` call by scheduling\nit rather than calling it directly from within the mutex-protected\ncontext."
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