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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-38727" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-09-04T15:33:25.286Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-15T01:07:51.216Z" 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-2025-38727" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38727.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38727" title: "netlink: avoid infinite retry looping in netlink_unicast()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnetlink: avoid infinite retry looping in netlink_unicast()\n\nnetlink_attachskb() checks for the socket's read memory allocation\nconstraints. Firstly, it has:\n\n rmem \u003c READ_ONCE(sk-\u003esk_rcvbuf)\n\nto check if the just increased rmem value fits into the socket's receive\nbuffer. If not, it proceeds and tries to wait for the memory under:\n\n rmem + skb-\u003etruesize \u003e READ_ONCE(sk-\u003esk_rcvbuf)\n\nThe checks don't cover the case when skb-\u003etruesize + sk-\u003esk_rmem_alloc is\nequal to sk-\u003esk_rcvbuf. Thus the function neither successfully accepts\nthese conditions, nor manages to reschedule the task - and is called in\nretry loop for indefinite time which is caught as:\n\n rcu: INFO: rcu_sched self-detected stall on CPU\n rcu: 0-....: (25999 ticks this GP) idle=ef2/1/0x4000000000000000 softirq=262269/262269 fqs=6212\n (t=26000 jiffies g=230833 q=259957)\n NMI backtrace for cpu 0\n CPU: 0 PID: 22 Comm: kauditd Not tainted 5.10.240 #68\n Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.17.0-4.fc42 04/01/2014\n Call Trace:\n \u003cIRQ\u003e\n dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:120\n nmi_cpu_backtrace.cold lib/nmi_backtrace.c:105\n nmi_trigger_cpumask_backtrace lib/nmi_backtrace.c:62\n rcu_dump_cpu_stacks kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h:335\n rcu_sched_clock_irq.cold kernel/rcu/tree.c:2590\n update_process_times kernel/time/timer.c:1953\n tick_sched_handle kernel/time/tick-sched.c:227\n tick_sched_timer kernel/time/tick-sched.c:1399\n __hrtimer_run_queues kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1652\n hrtimer_interrupt kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1717\n __sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1113\n asm_call_irq_on_stack arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:808\n \u003c/IRQ\u003e\n\n netlink_attachskb net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1234\n netlink_unicast net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1349\n kauditd_send_queue kernel/audit.c:776\n kauditd_thread kernel/audit.c:897\n kthread kernel/kthread.c:328\n ret_from_fork arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:304\n\nRestore the original behavior of the check which commit in Fixes\naccidentally missed when restructuring the code.\n\nFound by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org)." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"9da025150b7c14a8390fc06aea314c0a4011e82c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"47d49fd07f86d1f55ea1083287303d237e9e0922"},{"version":"c4ceaac5c5ba0b992ee1dc88e2a02421549e5c98","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6bee383ff83352a693d03efdf27cdd80742f71b2"},{"version":"fd69af06101090eaa60b3d216ae715f9c0a58e5b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f324959ad47e62e3cadaffa65d3cff790fb48529"},{"version":"76602d8e13864524382b0687dc32cd8f19164d5a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d42b71a34f6b8a2d5c53df81169b03b8d8b5cf4e"},{"version":"55baecb9eb90238f60a8350660d6762046ebd3bd","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"346c820ef5135cf062fa3473da955ef8c5fb6929"},{"version":"4b8e18af7bea92f8b7fb92d40aeae729209db250","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"44ddd7b1ae0b7edb2c832eb16798c827a05e58f0"},{"version":"cd7ff61bfffd7000143c42bbffb85eeb792466d6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"78fcd69d55c5f11d7694c547eca767a1cfd38ec4"},{"version":"ae8f160e7eb24240a2a79fc4c815c6a0d4ee16cc","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e8edc7de688791a337c068693f22e8d8b869df71"},{"version":"ae8f160e7eb24240a2a79fc4c815c6a0d4ee16cc","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"759dfc7d04bab1b0b86113f1164dc1fec192b859"},{"version":"5.4.296","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.4.297"},{"version":"5.10.240","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.10.241"},{"version":"5.15.189","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.15.190"},{"version":"6.1.146","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.1.149"},{"version":"6.6.99","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.6.103"},{"version":"6.12.39","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.12.43"},{"version":"6.15.7","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.15.11"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.16","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.16"},{"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"}] ## 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