# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-38551"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-08-16T11:34:19.544Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-23T15:59:59.225Z"
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-2025-38551"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38551.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38551"
title: "virtio-net: fix recursived rtnl_lock() during probe()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nvirtio-net: fix recursived rtnl_lock() during probe()\n\nThe deadlock appears in a stack trace like:\n\n  virtnet_probe()\n    rtnl_lock()\n    virtio_config_changed_work()\n      netdev_notify_peers()\n        rtnl_lock()\n\nIt happens if the VMM sends a VIRTIO_NET_S_ANNOUNCE request while the\nvirtio-net driver is still probing.\n\nThe config_work in probe() will get scheduled until virtnet_open() enables\nthe config change notification via virtio_config_driver_enable()."
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