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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-38708" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-09-04T15:32:59.108Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-15T01:07:44.390Z" 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-2025-38708" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38708.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38708" title: "drbd: add missing kref_get in handle_write_conflicts" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndrbd: add missing kref_get in handle_write_conflicts\n\nWith `two-primaries` enabled, DRBD tries to detect \"concurrent\" writes\nand handle write conflicts, so that even if you write to the same sector\nsimultaneously on both nodes, they end up with the identical data once\nthe writes are completed.\n\nIn handling \"superseeded\" writes, we forgot a kref_get,\nresulting in a premature drbd_destroy_device and use after free,\nand further to kernel crashes with symptoms.\n\nRelevance: No one should use DRBD as a random data generator, and apparently\nall users of \"two-primaries\" handle concurrent writes correctly on layer up.\nThat is cluster file systems use some distributed lock manager,\nand live migration in virtualization environments stops writes on one node\nbefore starting writes on the other node.\n\nWhich means that other than for \"test cases\",\nthis code path is never taken in real life.\n\nFYI, in DRBD 9, things are handled differently nowadays. We still detect\n\"write conflicts\", but no longer try to be smart about them.\nWe decided to disconnect hard instead: upper layers must not submit concurrent\nwrites. If they do, that's their fault." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"668700b40a7c8727bbd2b3fd4fd22e0ce3f1aeb6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0336bfe9c237476bd7c45605a36ca79c2bca62e5"},{"version":"668700b40a7c8727bbd2b3fd4fd22e0ce3f1aeb6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"810cd546a29bfac90ed1328ea01d693d4bd11cb1"},{"version":"668700b40a7c8727bbd2b3fd4fd22e0ce3f1aeb6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"84ef8dd3238330d1795745ece83b19f0295751bf"},{"version":"668700b40a7c8727bbd2b3fd4fd22e0ce3f1aeb6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"57418de35420cedab035aa1da8a26c0499b7f575"},{"version":"668700b40a7c8727bbd2b3fd4fd22e0ce3f1aeb6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9f53b2433ad248cd3342cc345f56f5c7904bd8c4"},{"version":"668700b40a7c8727bbd2b3fd4fd22e0ce3f1aeb6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7d483ad300fc0a06f69b019dda8f74970714baf8"},{"version":"668700b40a7c8727bbd2b3fd4fd22e0ce3f1aeb6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"46e3763dcae0ffcf8fcfaff4fc10a90a92ffdd89"},{"version":"668700b40a7c8727bbd2b3fd4fd22e0ce3f1aeb6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3a896498f6f577e57bf26aaa93b48c22b6d20c20"},{"version":"668700b40a7c8727bbd2b3fd4fd22e0ce3f1aeb6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"00c9c9628b49e368d140cfa61d7df9b8922ec2a8"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.5","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.5"},{"version":"5.4.297","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.241","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.190","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.149","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.103","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.43","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.15.11","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.15.*"},{"version":"6.16.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.16.*"},{"version":"6.17","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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