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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-39749" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-09-11T16:52:21.228Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-12T12:06:44.240Z" 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-2025-39749" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-39749.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-39749" title: "rcu: Protect -\u003edefer_qs_iw_pending from data race" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nrcu: Protect -\u003edefer_qs_iw_pending from data race\n\nOn kernels built with CONFIG_IRQ_WORK=y, when rcu_read_unlock() is\ninvoked within an interrupts-disabled region of code [1], it will invoke\nrcu_read_unlock_special(), which uses an irq-work handler to force the\nsystem to notice when the RCU read-side critical section actually ends.\nThat end won't happen until interrupts are enabled at the soonest.\n\nIn some kernels, such as those booted with rcutree.use_softirq=y, the\nirq-work handler is used unconditionally.\n\nThe per-CPU rcu_data structure's -\u003edefer_qs_iw_pending field is\nupdated by the irq-work handler and is both read and updated by\nrcu_read_unlock_special(). This resulted in the following KCSAN splat:\n\n------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nBUG: KCSAN: data-race in rcu_preempt_deferred_qs_handler / rcu_read_unlock_special\n\nread to 0xffff96b95f42d8d8 of 1 bytes by task 90 on cpu 8:\n rcu_read_unlock_special+0x175/0x260\n __rcu_read_unlock+0x92/0xa0\n rt_spin_unlock+0x9b/0xc0\n __local_bh_enable+0x10d/0x170\n __local_bh_enable_ip+0xfb/0x150\n rcu_do_batch+0x595/0xc40\n rcu_cpu_kthread+0x4e9/0x830\n smpboot_thread_fn+0x24d/0x3b0\n kthread+0x3bd/0x410\n ret_from_fork+0x35/0x40\n ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30\n\nwrite to 0xffff96b95f42d8d8 of 1 bytes by task 88 on cpu 8:\n rcu_preempt_deferred_qs_handler+0x1e/0x30\n irq_work_single+0xaf/0x160\n run_irq_workd+0x91/0xc0\n smpboot_thread_fn+0x24d/0x3b0\n kthread+0x3bd/0x410\n ret_from_fork+0x35/0x40\n ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30\n\nno locks held by irq_work/8/88.\nirq event stamp: 200272\nhardirqs last enabled at (200272): [\u003cffffffffb0f56121\u003e] finish_task_switch+0x131/0x320\nhardirqs last disabled at (200271): [\u003cffffffffb25c7859\u003e] __schedule+0x129/0xd70\nsoftirqs last enabled at (0): [\u003cffffffffb0ee093f\u003e] copy_process+0x4df/0x1cc0\nsoftirqs last disabled at (0): [\u003c0000000000000000\u003e] 0x0\n\n------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nThe problem is that irq-work handlers run with interrupts enabled, which\nmeans that rcu_preempt_deferred_qs_handler() could be interrupted,\nand that interrupt handler might contain an RCU read-side critical\nsection, which might invoke rcu_read_unlock_special(). In the strict\nKCSAN mode of operation used by RCU, this constitutes a data race on\nthe -\u003edefer_qs_iw_pending field.\n\nThis commit therefore disables interrupts across the portion of the\nrcu_preempt_deferred_qs_handler() that updates the -\u003edefer_qs_iw_pending\nfield. This suffices because this handler is not a fast path." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"0864f057b050bc6dd68106b3185e02db5140012d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"74f58f382a7c8333f8d09701aefaa25913bdbe0e"},{"version":"0864f057b050bc6dd68106b3185e02db5140012d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f937759c7432d6151b73e1393b6517661813d506"},{"version":"0864f057b050bc6dd68106b3185e02db5140012d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0ad84d62217488e679ecc90e8628980dcc003de3"},{"version":"0864f057b050bc6dd68106b3185e02db5140012d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b5de8d80b5d049f051b95d9b1ee50ae4ab656124"},{"version":"0864f057b050bc6dd68106b3185e02db5140012d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b55947b725f190396f475d5d0c59aa855a4d8895"},{"version":"0864f057b050bc6dd68106b3185e02db5140012d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e35e711c78c8a4c43330c0dcb1c4d507a19c20f4"},{"version":"0864f057b050bc6dd68106b3185e02db5140012d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"90de9c94ea72327cfa9c2c9f6113c23a513af60b"},{"version":"0864f057b050bc6dd68106b3185e02db5140012d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"55e11f6776798b27cf09a7aa0d718415d4fc9cf5"},{"version":"0864f057b050bc6dd68106b3185e02db5140012d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"90c09d57caeca94e6f3f87c49e96a91edd40cbfd"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.3","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.3"},{"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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